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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 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

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

We revisit the notion of nuclear parton-to-pion fragmentation functions at next-to-leading order accuracy as an effective description of hadroproduction in nuclear environments such as in semi-inclusive lepton-nucleus deep-inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-14 Matias Doradau , Ramiro Tomas Martinez , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann

We present a detailed assessment of uncertainties in parton-to-pion and parton-to-kaon fragmentation functions obtained in recent global QCD analyses of single-inclusive hadron production data at next-to-leading order accuracy. We use the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Manuel Epele , Romina Llubaroff , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann

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 a new, comprehensive global analysis of parton-to-pion fragmentation functions at next-to-leading order accuracy in QCD. The obtained results are based on the latest experimental information on single-inclusive pion production in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 D. de Florian , R. Sassot , M. Epele , R. J. Hernandez-Pinto , M. Stratmann

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 new sets of fragmentation functions for protons and inclusive charged hadrons obtained in combined NLO QCD analyses of single-inclusive hadron production in electron-positron annihilation, proton-proton collisions, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann

Achieving the highest possible precision for theoretical predictions at the present and future high-energy lepton and hadron colliders requires a precise determination of fragmentation functions (FFs) of light and heavy charged hadrons from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-07 Maryam Soleymaninia , Muhammad Goharipour , Hamzeh Khanpour , Hubert Spiesberger

Using the Drell-Levy-Yan relation, the pion and kaon elementary fragmentation functions (EFFs) are obtained from their hadron-scale parton distribution functions (DFs). These EFFs serve as driving terms in the hadron cascade equations,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-25 Hui-Yu Xing

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

The Drell-Levy-Yan relation is employed to obtain pion and kaon elementary fragmentation functions (EFFs) from the hadron-scale parton distribution functions (DFs) of these mesons. Two different DF sets are used: that calculated using a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-27 Hui-Yu Xing , Wen-Hao Bian , Zhu-Fang Cui , Craig D. Roberts

In this document, we present the global QCD analysis of parton-to-kaon fragmentation functions at next-to-leading order accuracy using the latest experimental information on single-inclusive kaon production in electron-positron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 R. J. Hernández-Pinto , M. Epele , D. de Florian , R. Sassot , M. Stratmann

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 (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 present NNFF1.1h, a new determination of unidentified charged-hadron fragmentation functions (FFs) and their uncertainties. Experimental measurements of transverse-momentum distributions for charged-hadron production in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-22 The NNPDF Collaboration , Valerio Bertone , Nathan P. Hartland , Emanuele R. Nocera , Juan Rojo , Luca Rottoli

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

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

The goal of this study is to check which, if any, of the published versions of the pion and kaon fragmentation functions is compatible with the STAR data on semi-inclusive pion and kaon production in proton-proton collisions, and on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-20 D. Kotlorz , E. Christova , E. Leader