Total cross section for electron-positron annihilation into hadron final states in the upsilon energy region

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Abstract

We report measurements made with the CLEO detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) of the total cross section for ${e}^{+}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\mathrm{hadrons}$ at the $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}(1S)$, $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}(2S)$, and $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}(3S)$, and in the nearby nonresonant continuum. We find $R=3.77\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.06 (\mathrm{statistical}) \ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{} 0.24 (\mathrm{systematic})$ for the ratio of the nonresonant hadronic cross section to the cross section for muon-pair production at a center-of-mass total energy $W=10.4$ GeV. For the leptonic decay widths ${\ensuremath{\Gamma}}_{\mathrm{ee}}$ of the $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}(1S)$, $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}(2S)$, and $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}(3S)$ we obtain 1.30\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.05\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.08, 0.52\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.03\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.04, and 0.42\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.04\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.03 keV, respectively.

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