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The Evolution of Hadron Spectra in the Modified Leading Logarithm Approximation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We perform fits of ΛQCD\Lambda_{\rm QCD} and the gluon fragmentation function D(x,Q)D(x,Q) at initial scale Q0ΛQCDQ_0 \gg\Lambda_{\rm QCD} to charged light hadron momentum spectra data by evolving in the Modified Leading Logarithm Approximation. Without additional assumptions, we achieve a good description of the available data for ξ=ln(1/x)\xi=\ln(1/x) up to and around the Gaussian peak, and values of ΛQCD\Lambda_{\rm QCD} acceptably close to those in the literature. In particular, we find that this procedure describes the position of the peak, and, in contrast to the Limiting Spectrum, also the normalization.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0404287,
  title  = {The Evolution of Hadron Spectra in the Modified Leading Logarithm Approximation},
  author = {S. Albino and B. A. Kniehl and G. Kramer and W. Ochs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0404287},
  year   = {2009}
}

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To be published in Eur.Phys.J.C, EPJC040401