Abstract. A comprehensive compilation of experimental data on total hadronic cross sections, and R ratios, in e⁺e⁻ interactions is presented. Published data from the Novosibirsk, Orsay, Frascati, SLAC, CORNELL, DESY, KEK and CERN e⁺e⁻ colliders on both exclusive and inclusive final particle states are included from threshold energies to the highest LEP energies. The data are presented in tabular form supplemented by compilation plots of different exclusive final particle states and of different energy regions. All the data in this review, together with data on a wide variety of other reactions, can be found in, and retrieved from, the Durham HEP Databases on the World Wide Web http://durpdg.dur.ac.uk/HEPDATA.

Print publication: Issue 12A (December 2003)
Received 6 October 2003
Published 26 November 2003