We perform fits to the available charged and neutral kaon production data in e++e−→K+X, K=K±andKS0, and determine the non-singlet combination of kaon fragmentation functions DuK±−DdK± 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 z is larger than that obtained by the other collaborations from global fit analysis and differs significantly at low z.
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@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}
}