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Perturbative Prediction for Parton Fragmentation into Heavy Hadron

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-01-25 v1

Abstract

By expanding functions of parton fragmentation into a heavy hadron in the inverse of the heavy quark mass mQm_Q we attempt to factorize them into perturbative- and nonperturbative parts. In our approach the nonperturbative parts can be defined as matrix elements in heavy quark effective theory, the shape of the functions is predicted by perturbative QCD. In this work we neglect effect at order of mQ2m_Q^{-2} and calculate the perturbative parts at one-loop level for heavy quark- and gluon fragmentation. We compare our results from leading log approximation with experimental results from e+ee^+e^- colliders and find a deviation below or at 10% level. Adding effect of higher order in αs\alpha_s it can be expected to reduce the deviation. The size of matrix elements appearing at the order we consider for several types of heavy hadrons is determined.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9705446,
  title  = {Perturbative Prediction for Parton Fragmentation into Heavy Hadron},
  author = {J. P. Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9705446},
  year   = {2011}
}

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21 pages + 3 pages figures, plain tex

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