Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1845557 | Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements | 2012 | 4 Pages |
The KLOE experiment at the ϕ – factory DAΦNE in Frascati near Rome is the first to have employed Initial State Radiation (ISR) to precisely determine the e+e−→π+π−(γ) cross section below 1 GeV. Such a measurement is particularly important to test the Standard Model (SM) calculation for the (g−2) of the muon, where a long standing 3σ discrepancy is observed.In 2005 and 2008 KLOE published two measurements of the π+π− cross section with the photon emitted at small angles, and an independent measurement of the π+π− cross section with the photon emitted at large angles using data at a collision energy of 1 GeV (i.e., 20 MeV below the ϕ-peak) was published in 2010. While the measurements were normalized to the DAΦNE luminosity using large angle Bhabha scattering, a new analysis has been performed which derives the pion form factor directly from measuring the bin-by-bin π+π−γ/μ+μ−γ ratio. We present the preliminary results of this new measurement, as well as the previously published ones, and the impact on the evaluation of the hadronic contribution to the muon anomaly.