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Pion and kaon fragmentation functions at next-to-next-to-leading order

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-09-21 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present a new determination of unpolarised charged pion and kaon fragmentation functions from a set of single-inclusive electron-positron annihilation and lepton-nucleon semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering data. The determination includes next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to both processes, and is carried out in a framework that combines a neural-network parametrisation of fragmentation functions with a Monte Carlo representation of their uncertainties. We discuss the quality of the determination, in particular its dependence on higher order corrections.

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@article{arxiv.2204.10331,
  title  = {Pion and kaon fragmentation functions at next-to-next-to-leading order},
  author = {Rabah Abdul Khalek and Valerio Bertone and Alice Khoudli and Emanuele R. Nocera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.10331},
  year   = {2022}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures, 1 table