Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences

First results of the study of the process ee → 4π by the CMD-2 collaboration at VEPP-2M are presented for the energy range 1.05–1.38 GeV. Using an integrated luminosity of 5.8 pb, energy dependence of the processes ee → ππ2π and ee → 2π2π has been measured. Analysis of the differential distributions demonstrates the dominance of the a1π and ωπ intermediate states. Upper limits for the contributions of other alternative mechanisms are also placed.