Re: experimental measurement of electron diameter?

"Ron Baker, Pluralitas!" wrote:
>
> Does anybody have any links or references to actual experiments
> measuring the "diameter of an electron"?
>
> I've heard it said that the diameter is less than the resolution
> of every experiment performed. I've also heard it said that
> at such scales the "wave nature" of the electron makes
> "diameter" meaningless.
>
> I've spent more than an hour googling for related experiments.
> No joy. Anybody got any links/references?

Leptons are literal point particles clothed in Feynman diagrams. What
do you consider to be a defining radius?

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