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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

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 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

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

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-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. A. Kniehl , G. Kramer , B. Pötter

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

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 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…

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 detailed phenomenological analysis of single-inclusive hadron production at the CERN-LHC in both proton-proton and proton-lead collisions. First data from the LHC experiments on charged hadron spectra are compared to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 M. Stratmann , R. Sassot , P. Zurita

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

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 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

The concept of parton fragmentation in QCD hard scattering phenomenology as well as NLO pQCD analysis of fragmentation functions are outlined. Hadroproduction of pions of a few GeV pT is discussed through the example of recent measurements…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Kretzer

An up-to-date global QCD analysis of high energy lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron interactions is performed to better determine the gluon and quark parton distributions in the nucleon. Improved experimental data on inclusive jet production,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 H. L. Lai , J. Huston , S. Kuhlmann , J. Morfin , F. Olness , J. F. Owens , J. Pumplin , W. K. Tung

We present calculations of next-to-leading order and resummed QCD corrections for semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering and single-inclusive e+e- annihilation. The resummation is performed to next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. Knowing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Daniele P. Anderle , Felix Ringer , Werner Vogelsang

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 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 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

In the literature it is assumed that the parton to hadron fragmentation function cannot be studied by using the lattice QCD method because of the sum over the (unobserved) outgoing hadronic states. However, in this paper we find that since…

General Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Gouranga C Nayak