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We present new sets of fragmentation functions for charged pions, charged kaons, and protons, both at the leading and next-to-leading orders. They are fitted to the scaled-momentum distributions of these hadrons measured in e+e-…

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A statistical model for the parton distributions in the nucleon has proven its efficiency in the analysis of deep inelastic scattering data, so we propose to extend this approach to the description of unpolarized fragmentation functions for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Claude Bourrely , Jacques Soffer

Using fragmentation functions for charged pions, charged kaons, and (anti)protons recently extracted from experimental data of e^+e^- annihilation at the Z-boson resonance and at centre-of-mass energy root(s) = 29 GeV, we perform a global…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 B. A. Kniehl , G. Kramer , B. Poetter

The field of fragmentation functions of light quarks and gluons is reviewed. In addition to integrated fragmentation functions, attention is paid to the dependence of fragmentation functions on transverse momenta and on polarization degrees…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-10-17 Andreas Metz , Anselm Vossen

We review the description of inclusive single unpolarized light hadron production using fragmentation functions in the framework of the factorization theorem. We summarize the factorization of quantities into perturbatively calculable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-06 Simon Albino

Fragmentation functions (FFs) are essential non-perturbative QCD inputs for predicting hadron production cross sections in high energy scatterings. In this study, we present a joint determination of FFs for light charged hadrons through a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-20 Jun Gao , ChongYang Liu , XiaoMin Shen , Hongxi Xing , Yuxiang Zhao

Fragmentation functions and their uncertainties are determined for pion, kaon, and proton by a global $\chi^2$ analysis of charged-hadron production data in electron-positron annihilation and by the Hessian method for error estimation. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , T. -H. Nagai , K. Sudoh

We analyze experimental data for the production of Lambda baryons in e^+e^- annihilation in terms of scale dependent, QCD evolved, Lambda fragmentation functions. Apart from the vast majority of the data for which the polarization of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 D. de Florian , M. Stratmann , W. Vogelsang

Collider processes with identified hadrons in the final state are widely studied in view of determining details of the proton structure and of understanding hadronization. Their theory description requires the introduction of fragmentation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-08 Leonardo Bonino , Thomas Gehrmann , Matteo Marcoli , Robin Schürmann , Giovanni Stagnitto

Quark and gluon parton dihadron fragmentation functions and their evolution are studied in the process of e+e- annihilation. We provide definitions of such dihadron fragmentation functions in terms of parton matrix elements and derive the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 A. Majumder , Xin-Nian Wang

We present the first global analysis of fragmentation functions (FFs) for light charged hadrons ($\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$) at full next-to-next-to-leading order in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), incorporating world data from both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 Jun Gao , XiaoMin Shen , Hongxi Xing , Yuxiang Zhao , Bin Zhou

We present a first analysis of parton-to-pion fragmentation functions at next-to-next-to-leading order accuracy in QCD based on single-inclusive pion production in electron-positron annihilation. Special emphasis is put on the technical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-11 Daniele P. Anderle , Felix Ringer , Marco Stratmann

We briefly report our recent progress on the study of the polarized fragmentation functions of $\Lambda$ hyperon in unpolarized semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scatterings and electron-positron annihilations at low energies. In particular, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 Shu-yi Wei

We perform a simultaneous global analysis of hadron fragmentation functions (FFs) to various charged hadrons at next-to-leading order in QCD. The world data set includes results from electron-positron single-inclusive annihilation,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-02 Jun Gao , ChongYang Liu , XiaoMin Shen , Hongxi Xing , Yuxiang Zhao

We will give an outline of the computation of the QCD corrections to the spin structure function g_1(x,Q^2) and the spin fragmentation function g_1^H(x,Q^2) which are measured in deep inelastic electron-proton scattering and in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. L. van Neerven

The hadronization of a high-energy parton is described by fragmentation functions which are introduced through QCD factorizations. While the hadronization mechanism per se remains uknown, fragmentation functions can still be investigated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-07 Kai-Bao Chen , Tianbo Liu , Yu-Kun Song , Shu-Yi Wei

We update our extraction of parton-to-charged hadron fragmentation functions at next-to-leading order accuracy in QCD, focusing on the wealth of data collected at the Large Hadron Collider over the past decade. We obtain an accurate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-30 Ignacio Borsa , Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann

Predictions for light charged hadron production data in the current fragmentation region of deeply inelastic scattering from the H1 and ZEUS experiments are calculated using perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics at next-to-leading order, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Albino , B. A. Kniehl , G. Kramer , C. Sandoval

We present the calculation of the order $\alpha_s^2$ corrections to the coefficient functions contributing to the longitudinal ($F_L(x,Q^2)$) and transverse fragmentation functions ($F_T(x,Q^2)$) measured in electron-positron annihilation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 P. J. Rijken , W. L. van Neerven

The Fragmentation Functions is one of the non-perturbative components of the QCD factorization theorem. They represents the probability of a parton carrying a fraction z of momentum to form into a particular kind of hadron. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-09 H. Bello Martínez , R. J. Hernández-Pinto , I. León Monzón