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The profile of the pion valence quark distribution function (DF) remains controversial. Working from the concepts of QCD effective charges and generalised parton distributions, we show that since the pion elastic electromagnetic form factor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-29 Xiaobin Wang , Lei Chang , Minghui Ding , Khepani Raya , Craig D. Roberts

We calculate the cross section of a pion diffraction dissociation in two jets with large transverse momenta originating from a hard gluon exchange between the pion constituents. To the leading logarithmic accuracy (in energy), the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 V. M. Braun , D. Yu. Ivanov , A. Schaefer , L. Szymanowski

We study jets with identified hadrons in which a family of jet-shape variables called angularities are measured, extending the concept of fragmenting jet functions (FJFs) to these observables. FJFs determine the fraction of energy, z,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-20 Reggie Bain , Lin Dai , Andrew Hornig , Adam K. Leibovich , Yiannis Makris , Thomas Mehen

Fragmentation Functions (FF) are universal non-perturbative objects that model hadronization in some general kind of processes. They are mainly extracted from experimental data, hence constraining the parameters of the corresponding fits is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-18 German F. R. Sborlini , Roger Hernández-Pinto , Salvador Ochoa-Oregon , David F. Rentería-Estrada

We calculate the valence quark distribution functions of the $\pi$ meson using the non-relativistic chiral constituent quark model. The $\pi$ wave function is obtained by solving the two-body Schr\"odinger equation within the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-21 Qian Wu , Chengdong Han , Di Qing , Wei Kou , JuJun Xie , Fan Wang , Xurong Chen

Within the Dyson-Schwinger equation formulation of QCD, a rainbow ladder truncation is used to calculate the pion valence-quark distribution function(PDF). The gap equation is renormalized at a typical hadronic scale, of order 0.5GeV, which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Lei Chang , Anthony W. Thomas

Fragmentation functions (FFs) are crucial non-perturbative components in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), playing a vital role in predictions and understanding of the hadronization process. In this paper, we present the FFs for $K_S^0$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-10 Jun Gao , ChongYang Liu , Mengyang Li , XiaoMin Shen , Hongxi Xing , Yuxiang Zhao , Yiyu Zhou

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

Dihadron Fragmentation Functions (DFF) provide a vast amount of information on the intricate details of the parton hadronization process. Moreover, they provide a unique access to the "clean" extraction of nucleon transversity parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-04 Hrayr H. Matevosyan , Anthony W. Thomas , Wolfgang Bentz

Understanding jets initiated by quarks and gluons is of fundamental importance in collider physics. Efficient and robust techniques for quark versus gluon jet discrimination have consequences for new physics searches, precision $\alpha_s$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-17 Andrew J. Larkoski , Eric M. Metodiev

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

The interest into parton distribution functions (PDFs) and fragmentation functions (FFs) in current high energy physics research is twofold. On the one hand, they are fundamental objects to conduct precision phenomenology studies, e.g. at…

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Fracture functions are parton distributions of an initial hadron in the presence of an almost collinear particle observed in the final state. They are important ingredients in QCD factorization for processes where a particle is produced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 X. P. Chai , K. B. Chen , J. P. Ma , X. B. Tong

A symmetry-preserving continuum approach to the two valence-body bound-state problem is used to calculate the valence, glue and sea distributions within the pion; unifying them with, inter alia, electromagnetic pion elastic and transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Minghui Ding , Khépani Raya , Daniele Binosi , Lei Chang , Craig D. Roberts , Sebastian M. Schmidt

The NJL-jet model provides a sound framework for calculating the fragmentation func- tions in an effective chiral quark theory, where the momentum and isospin sum rules are satisfied without the introduction of ad hoc parameters [1].…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-06 Hrayr H. Matevosyan , Anthony W. Thomas , Wolfgang Bentz

We study the fragmentation of (light) quarks and gluons to hadrons inside a jet of cone size R. This allows for a more exclusive analysis of fragmentation than is currently the case. The shape of semi-inclusive cross sections in the hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Massimiliano Procura , Wouter J. Waalewijn

We investigate the unpolarized pion and kaon fragmentation functions, employing the nonlocal chiral-quark model, which manifests the nonlocal interactions between the quarks and pseudoscalar mesons, considering the explicit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Seung-il Nam , Chung-Wen Kao

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 consider the pion structure in the region of low and moderately high momentum transfers: at low $Q^2$, the pion is treated as a composite system of constituent quarks; at moderately high momentum transfers, $Q^2=10\div25\;GeV^2$, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Anisovich , D. Melikhov , V. Nikonov

Understanding why the scale of emergent hadron mass is obvious in the proton but hidden in the pion may rest on mapping the distribution functions (DFs) of all partons within the pion and comparing them with those in the proton; and since…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-27 Lei Chang , Craig D. Roberts