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The ratio of longitudinal to transverse structure functions, $\sigma_L/\sigma_T$, has been extracted from recent beam-recoil transferred polarization data for the $p(\vec e,e'K^+)\vec\Lambda$ reaction. Results have been obtained for…
We determine the O(alpha_s^2) corrections to the partonic hemisphere soft function relevant for thrust and jet mass distributions in e+e- annihilation in the dijet limit. In this limit the distributions can be described by a factorization…
The order alpha_s^2 contribution to the inclusive semileptonic decay width of a b quark \Gamma(b -> X_u e \bar{\nu}_e) is calculated analytically for zero mass u quarks.
The longitudinal structure function for nucleons and nuclei is considered at fixed $\sqrt{s}$ and $Q^2$ to the minimum value of $x$ given by $Q^2/s$. This is done using the expansion method and color dipole model in the next-to-leading…
Fragmentation functions are determined for pions, kaons, and nucleons by a global analysis of charged-hadron production data in electron-positron annihilation. The optimum functions are obtained in both leading order (LO) and…
We compute the order alpha_s^2 corrections to the one particle inclusive electroproduction cross section of hadrons with non vanishing transverse momentum. We perform the full calculation analytically, and obtain the expression of the…
We present new sets of next-to-leading order fragmentation functions for the production of K0short and Lambda particles from the gluon and from each of the quarks, obtained by fitting to all relevant data sets from e+e- annihilation. The…
We present consistently ordered calculations of the structure functions F_2(x,Q^2) and F_L(x,Q^2), in different expansion schemes. After discussing the standard expansion in powers of alpha_s(Q^2) we consider a leading-order expansion in…
Part of the order $\alpha_s$ correction to the inclusive $B\to X_s\,\gamma$ photon spectrum is enhanced by $\log(m_b^2/m_s^2)$. We discuss its origin and sum the corrections proportional to $[\alpha_s\log(m_b^2/\mu^2)]^n$ to all orders.…
The partial decay rate $\Gamma(Z\to b\bar{b})$ is significantly influenced by the mass of the top quark due to electroweak radiative corrections. The leading $\sim m_t^2$ and the next-to-leading contribution $\sim \ln m_t^2$ are known to be…
We investigate the effect of the structure function F_L in global parton analyses of deep inelastic and related hard scattering data. We perform NLO and NNLO analyses which include the reduced cross section HERA data at high y, as well as…
We report on recent results obtained for the massive Wilson coefficients which contribute to the structure function $F_2(x,Q^2)$ at $O(\alpha_s^3)$ in the region $Q^2/m^2 \gsim 10$. In the calculation new species of harmonic sums and…
The Mellin-transforms of the next-to-leading order Wilson coefficients of the longitudinal structure function are evaluated.
We estimate the non-perturbative power-suppressed corrections to heavy flavour fragmentation and correlation functions in e^+e^- annihilation, using a model based on the analysis of one-loop Feynman graphs containing a massive gluon. This…
We give a detailed account of the phenomenology of all-order resummations of logarithmically enhanced contributions at small momentum fraction of the observed hadron in semi-inclusive electron-positron annihilation and the time-like scale…
The results of evaluation of mixed QED X QCD corrections to R(s) in e^+e^- annihilation and R_{\tau} in hadronic decay of the \tau lepton to O(\alpha^n\alpha_s^m), m+n \leq 3, are presented. The net effect on \alpha_s(M_Z) from the Z decay…
We calculate the fragmentation function for a light quark to decay into a lepton pair to leading order in the QCD coupling constant. In the formal definition of the fragmentation function, a QED phase must be included in the eikonal factor…
The short-distance coefficients for the color-octet 3S1 term in the fragmentation function for a gluon to split into heavy quarkonium states is calculated to order alpha_s^2. The gauge-invariant definition of the fragmentation function by…
We present the O(alpha_s) corrections to the cross section for the reaction e+e- --> gamma^* --> Q \bar Q in the energy region close to the threshold. We assume that the energy of the reaction is such that both the perturbative expansion in…
We compute the $O(\alpha_s)$ corrections to the Wilson coefficient of the chromomagnetic operator in inclusive semileptonic B decays. The results are employed to evaluate the complete $O(\alpha_s \Lambda^2/m_b^2)$ correction to the…