LARGE-ANGLE BHABHA SCATTERING

The paper presents a calculation of the total cross section for large-angle Bhabha scattering. Numerical results for LEP/SLC energies are presented. We impose cuts on both the angles and the energies of the outgoing electron and positron and on their acollinearity. The first-order QED corrections are taken into account completely, the higher-order QED corrections are incorporated in the leading log approach. Pure weak corrections are also included. The description of the Z-peak in Bhabha scattering is now brought to a level of precision comparable to the pure s-channel processes.