Determination of fragmentation functions and their uncertainties from e+ + e h + X data.pdfVIP

Determination of fragmentation functions and their uncertainties from e+ + e− → h +X data ∗ †,∗∗ ∗∗ † M. Hirai , S. Kumano , T.-H. Nagai and K. Sudoh ∗Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology 6 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan 0 †Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) 0 1-1, Ooho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan 2 ∗∗Department of Particle and Nuclear Studies, Graduate University for Advanced Studies c 1-1, Ooho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan e D Abstract. Fragmentation functions are determined for pions, kaons, and nucleons by a global anal- 1 ysis of charged-hadron production data in electron-positron annihilation. The optimum functions are obtained in both leading order (LO) and next-to-leading order (NLO) of αs . It is important that 1 uncertainties of the fragmentation functions are estimated in this work by the Hessian method. We v found that the uncertainties are large at small Q2 and that they are generally reduced in the NLO 9 in comparison with the LO ones. We supply a code for calculating the fragmentation functions and 0 2 0 their uncertainties for the pions, kaons, and nucleons at given z and Q . 2 Keywords: fragmentation function, quark, gluon, hadron production 1 PACS: 13.87.Fh, 13.66.Bc, 13.8