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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

The fragmentation functions of the pion with distinction between $D_{u}^{\pi^{+}}$, $D_{d}^{\pi^{+}}$, and $D_{s}^{\pi^{+}}$ are studied in the Field-Feynman recursive model, by taking into account the flavor structure in the excitation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 Jing Hua , Bo-Qiang Ma

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

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

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

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

We present new sets of next-to-leading order fragmentation functions describing the production of charged pions, kaons and protons from the gluon and from each of the quarks, obtained by fitting to all relevant data sets from e+ e-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 S. Albino , B. A. Kniehl , G. Kramer

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

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 revisit the description of pion production in proton-proton collisions in the light of the very precise data taken at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) over the past decade. First attempts to include LHC results in next-to-leading order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-23 Ignacio Borsa , Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Tanishq Sharma

Parton distribution functions (DFs) have long been recognised as key measures of hadron structure. Today, theoretical prediction of such DFs is becoming possible using diverse methods for continuum and lattice analyses of strong interaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Yang Yu , Craig D. Roberts

Fragmentation functions of pion, kaon, and nucleon are determined by global analyses of hadron-production data in $e^+e^-$ annihilation. It is particularly important that uncertainties of the fragmentation functions are estimated for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-09-25 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , T. -H. Nagai , M. Oka , K. Sudoh

A rainbow-ladder truncation of QCD's Dyson-Schwinger equations, constrained by existing applications to hadron physics, is employed to compute the valence-quark parton distribution functions of the pion and kaon. Comparison is made to pi-N…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-04 Trang Nguyen , Adnan Bashir , Craig D. Roberts , Peter C. Tandy

The correct description of the hadron's structure requires understanding how quarks and gluons form the observable hadrons and how they are distributed within them. Two key nonperturbative quantities encapsulate this information: parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Gustavo B. Bopsin , Bruno El-Bennich , Gastão Krein , Fernando E. Serna , Roberto C. da Silveira

We determine the pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) from its light-front wave functions, obtained using the holographic Schr\"odinger equation of light-front chiral QCD combined with the 't Hooft equation in (1+1)-dimensional QCD at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Jiangshan Lan , Satvir Kaur , Chandan Mondal

We report on the extraction of dihadron fragmentation functions (DiFF) from the semiinclusive production of two hadron pairs in back-to-back jets in e+e- annihilation. A nonzero asymmetry in the correlation of azimuthal orientations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-11 A. Courtoy , Alessandro Bacchetta , Marco Radici

In this paper a new comprehensive analysis of parton-to-pion fragmentation functions (FFs) is performed for the first time by including all experimental data sets on single inclusive pion as well as unidentified light charged hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-06 Maryam Soleymaninia , Muhammad Goharipour , Hamzeh Khanpour

We summarize the key results of a recent global analysis of inclusive single-charged-hadron production in high-energy colliding-beam experiments. In the framework of the parton model of quantum chromodynamics at next-to-leading order (NLO),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-25 Bernd A. Kniehl

We present a new determination of unpolarised charged pion and kaon fragmentation functions from a set of single-inclusive electron-positron annihilation and lepton-nucleon semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering data. The determination…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-21 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Valerio Bertone , Alice Khoudli , Emanuele R. Nocera