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Modeling dihadron fragmentation functions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We present a model for dihadron fragmentation functions, describing the fragmentation of a quark into two unpolarized hadrons. We tune the parameters of our model to the output of the PYTHIA event generator for two-hadron semi-inclusive production in deep inelastic scattering at HERMES. Once the parameters of the model are fixed, we make predictions for other unknown fragmentation functions and for a single-spin asymmetry in the azimuthal distribution of pi+ pi- pairs in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering on a transversely polarized target at HERMES and COMPASS. Such asymmetry could be used to measure the quark transversity distribution function.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0608037,
  title  = {Modeling dihadron fragmentation functions},
  author = {Alessandro Bacchetta and Marco Radici},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0608037},
  year   = {2008}
}

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16 pages, 10 figures