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We present new sets of fragmentation functions for charged pions and kaons, both at leading and next-to-leading order. They are fitted to data on inclusive charged-hadron production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation taken by TPC at PEP ($\sqrt…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 J. Binnewies , B. A. Kniehl , G. Kramer

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 present new functional form of pion and kaon fragmentation functions up to next-to-leading order obtained through a global fit to single-inclusive electron-positron annihilation data and also employ, the semi-inclusive deep inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-08 M. Soleymaninia , A. N. Khorramian , S. M. Moosavi Nejad , F. Arbabifar

At the energies of present and future electron accelerators designed to study the structure of hadrons, there is a regime where hard pion electroproduction proceeds by a perturbatively calculable process in QCD. The process is not the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-29 Andrei Afanasev , Carl E. Carlson

We introduce a new family of Generalised Parton Distribution models able to fulfil by construction all the theoretical properties imposed by QCD. These models are built on standard Parton Distribution Functions and extended to off-forward…

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 NNFF1.0, a new determination of the fragmentation functions (FFs) of charged pions, charged kaons, and protons/antiprotons from an analysis of single-inclusive hadron production data in electron-positron annihilation. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-13 Valerio Bertone , Stefano Carrazza , Nathan P. Hartland , Emanuele R. Nocera , Juan Rojo

We present a quantitative assessment of the anticipated impact of future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) measurements on the extraction of parton-to-pion fragmentation functions (FFs). Our analysis combines simulated semi-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-09 Maryam Soleymaninia , Hamzeh Khanpour , Majid Azizi , Hadi Hashamipour

In this short review paper, we discuss some of the recent advances in the field of parton fragmentation processes into hadrons as well as their possible modifications in QCD media. Hadron production data in e+e-, deep inelastic scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-22 Francois Arleo

We report on some recent developments concerning parton-to-photon fragmentation functions. We briefly summarize the main theoretical concepts on which the currently available extractions of these fragmentation functions rely: evolution and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Tom Kaufmann , Asmita Mukherjee , Werner Vogelsang

We present a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) global QCD analysis of the proton's helicity parton distribution functions (PDFs), the first of its kind. To obtain the distributions, we use data for longitudinal spin asymmetries in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-31 Ignacio Borsa , Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann , Werner Vogelsang

We give a detailed account of the phenomenology of all-order resummations of logarithmically enhanced contributions at small momentum fraction of the observed hadron in semi-inclusive electron-positron annihilation and the time-like scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-15 Daniele P. Anderle , Tom Kaufmann , Felix Ringer , Marco Stratmann

I present a first determination of a set of collinear fragmentation functions of charged pions using the NNPDF methodology. The analysis is based on a wide set of single-inclusive electron-positron annihilation data, including recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Emanuele R. Nocera

Next-to-leading order parton fragmentation functions into light mesons are presented. They have been extracted from real and simulated $e^+e^-$ data and used to predict inclusive single particle distributions at different machines.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Simona Rolli

We discuss techniques and results for the extraction of the nucleon's spin-dependent parton distributions and their uncertainties from data for polarized deep-inelastic lepton-nucleon and proton-proton scattering by means of a global QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-01 Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann , Werner Vogelsang

Fragmentation functions are determined for the pion, kaon, and proton by analyzing charged-hadron production data in electron-positron annihilation. It is important that uncertainties of the determined fragmentation functions are estimated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , T. -H. Nagai , K. Sudoh

We evaluate the next-to-next-to-leading order corrections to the hard-scattering amplitude of the photon-to-pion transition form factor. Our approach is based on the predictive power of the conformal operator product expansion, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Melic , D. Müller , K. Passek-Kumericki

We present the first open-source analysis of fragmentation functions (FFs) of charged pions (entitled IPM-xFitter) computed at next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) accuracy in perturbative QCD using the…

We present an analytical next-to-leading order QCD calculation of the partonic cross sections for the process $pp\rightarrow ({\text{jet}} \,h)X$, for which a specific hadron is observed inside a fully reconstructed jet. In order to obtain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-16 Tom Kaufmann , Asmita Mukherjee , Werner Vogelsang

We present the first simultaneous global QCD analysis of spin-dependent parton distribution functions alongside their spin-averaged counterparts and pion, kaon, and unidentified hadron fragmentation functions. This analysis includes all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-08 C. Cocuzza , W. Melnitchouk , A. Metz , N. Sato