English

D^0, D^+, D_s^+, and Lambda_c^+ Fragmentation Functions from CERN LEP1

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present new sets of nonperturbative fragmentation functions for D^0, D^+, and D_s^+ mesons as well as for Lambda_c^+ baryons, both at leading and next-to-leading order in the MSbar factorization scheme with five massless quark flavors. They are determined by fitting data of e^+e^- annihilation taken by the OPAL Collaboration at CERN LEP1. We take the charm-quark fragmentation function to be of the form proposed by Peterson et al. and thus obtain new values of the epsilon_c parameter, which are specific for our choice of factorization scheme.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0504058,
  title  = {D^0, D^+, D_s^+, and Lambda_c^+ Fragmentation Functions from CERN LEP1},
  author = {Bernd A. Kniehl and Gustav Kramer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0504058},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

21 pages, 8 figures