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On the Fragmentation Function for Heavy Quarks in e+e- collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v1

Abstract

We use a recent O(alpha_s^2) calculation of the differential cross section for the production of heavy quarks in e+e- annihilation to compute a few moments of the heavy quark single-inclusive production cross section. We verify that, contrary to some recent claims, the leading and next-to-leading logarithmic terms in this cross section are correctly given by the standard NLO fragmentation function formalism for heavy quark production.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9709358,
  title  = {On the Fragmentation Function for Heavy Quarks in e+e- collisions},
  author = {P. Nason and C. Oleari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9709358},
  year   = {2014}
}

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14 pages, Latex, epsfig, 4 figures