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The non-singlet kaon fragmentation function from e^+e^- kaon production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-20 v2

Abstract

We perform fits to the available charged and neutral kaon production data in e++eK+Xe^++e^-\to K+X, K=K±andKS0K=K^\pm and K^0_S, and determine the non-singlet combination of kaon fragmentation functions DuK±DdK±D_u^{K^\pm}-D_d^{K^\pm} in a model independent way and without any correlations to the other fragmentation functions. Only nuclear isospin invariance is assumed. Working with non-singlets allows us to include the data at very low momentum fractions, which have so far been excluded in global fits, and to perform a first NNLO fit to fragmentation functions. We find that the kaon non-singlet fragmentation function at large zz is larger than that obtained by the other collaborations from global fit analysis and differs significantly at low zz.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1003.1084,
  title  = {The non-singlet kaon fragmentation function from e^+e^- kaon production},
  author = {S. Albino and E. Christova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.1084},
  year   = {2014}
}
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