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Towards a model independent approach to fragmentation functions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-02-26 v2

Abstract

We show that the difference cross sections in unpolarized SIDIS e+N\to e+h+X and pp hadron production p+p\to h+X determine independently in a model independent way, in any order in QCD, the two FFs: D_u^{h-\bar h} and D_d^{h-\bar h}, h=\pi^\pm, K^\pm or a sum over charged hadrons. If both K^\pm and K_s^0 are measured, then e+e-\toK+X, e+N\to e+K+X and p+p\to K+X present independent measurements of just one FF: D_{u-d}^{K^++K^-}. The above results allow to test the existing parametrizations, obtained with various different assumptions about the FFs, and to test the Q2Q^2 evolution and factorization.

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@article{arxiv.0809.0191,
  title  = {Towards a model independent approach to fragmentation functions},
  author = {Ekaterina Christova and Elliot Leader},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.0191},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages and no figures, references added and there are some changes in the text and the abstract

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