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We present MAPFF1.0_Lambda, the first global analysis at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD of the collinear unpolarised fragmentation functions of Lambda hyperons. The fit is based on data from single-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-08 Valerio Bertone , Alessia Bongallino , Amedeo Chiefa , Miguel G. Echevarria , Gunar Schnell

We present a quantitative assessment of the impact a future Electron-Ion Collider would have in the determination of parton distribution functions in the proton and parton-to-hadron fragmentation functions through semi-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-15 Elke C. Aschenauer , Ignacio Borsa , Rodolfo Sassot , Charlotte Van Hulse

I present a preliminary determination of the Fragmentation Functions (FFs) of unidentified charged hadrons at next-to-leading order in quantum chromodynamics. The analysis is based on hadron production cross section data in single-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-12 Emanuele R. Nocera

We discuss the inclusive high-pT charged-particle production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC. The experimental data are compared to the NLO perturbative QCD calculations employing various sets of parton-to-hadron fragmentation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-21 David d'Enterria , Kari J. Eskola , Ilkka Helenius , Hannu Paukkunen

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

We present new sets of proton fragmentation functions describing the production of protons from the gluon and each of the quarks, obtained by a global fit to all relevant data sets extracted from the single-inclusive electron-positron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-19 S. M. Moosavi Nejad , M. Soleymaninia , A. Maktoubian

In this research, we conduct a global QCD analysis of fragmentation functions (FFs) for neutral pions ($\pi^0$), neutral kaons ($K_S^0$), and eta mesons ($\eta$), utilizing world data of single inclusive hadron production in $e^+e^-$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-18 Mengyang Li , Daniele Paolo Anderle , Hongxi Xing , Yuxiang Zhao

We review recent developments in the theoretical description of inclusive single-hadron production at next-to-leading order in the parton model of quantum chromodynamics. Fragmentation functions are extracted from fits to data of inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernd A. Kniehl

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 for eta mesons are extracted at next-to-leading order accuracy of QCD in a global analysis of data taken in electron-positron annihilation and proton-proton scattering experiments. The obtained parametrization is in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-15 C. A. Aidala , F. Ellinghaus , R. Sassot , J. P. Seele , M. Stratmann

We review recent progress in the study of parton propagation, interaction and fragmentation in both cold and hot strongly interacting matter. Experimental highlights on high-energy hadron production in deep inelastic lepton-nucleus…

In this paper, we present ${\tt SGK18}$ FFs, a first global QCD analysis of parton-to-{\it unidentified} charged hadrons fragmentation functions (FFs) at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) accuracy in perturbative QCD. This analysis is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-04 Maryam Soleymaninia , Muhammad Goharipour , Hamzeh Khanpour

The elementary fragmentation function that describes the process $q\to \pi$ is predicted applying crossing and charge symmetry to the cut diagram of the pion valence quark distribution function. This elementary probability distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Roberto Correa da Silveira , Fernando E. Serna , Bruno El-Bennich

We study the production of polarized $\Lambda$-hyperons in electron-positron annihilation. We are particularly interested in the transverse-spin dependence of the cross section for unpolarized incident electron-positron pairs. At high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-05 Leonard Gamberg , Zhong-Bo Kang , Daniel Pitonyak , Marc Schlegel , Shinsuke Yoshida

We present new sets of fragmentation functions in next-to-leading order QCD that are determined from e+e- annihilation data of inclusive particle production. In addition to the O(alpha_s) unpolarized cross section the longitudinal cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Janko Binnewies

Inclusive cross section for pion production in proton - proton collisions are calculated based on unintegrated parton distribution functions (uPDFs). In addition to purely gluonic terms the present approach includes also quark degrees of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Marta Tichoruk , Antoni Szczurek

We report on our exploratory study for the direct evaluation of the parton distribution functions from lattice QCD, based on a recently proposed new approach. We present encouraging results using Nf = 2 + 1 + 1 twisted mass fermions with a…

New fragmentation functions (FFs) are extracted from a NLO QCD fit to the preliminary COMPASS data on pion and kaon multiplicities. It is shown that the new kaon FFs are very different from those of De Florian at al. (DSS) and Hirai et al.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-14 Elliot Leader , Alexander V. Sidorov , Dimiter B. Stamenov

We perform a complete next to leading order evaluation of inclusive neutral pion production from hadronic colliders which is based on the knowledge of the pion fragmentation functions at next to leading order. This problem has been tackled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Chiappetta , M. Greco , J. Ph. Guillet , S. Rolli , M. Werlen

In certain situations, such as one-particle inclusive processes, it is possible to model the hadronization through Fragmentation Functions (FFs), which are universal non-perturbative functions extracted from experimental data through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Salvador A. Ochoa-Oregon , David F. Rentería-Estrada , Roger J. Hernández-Pinto , German F. R. Sborlini