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Paper   IPM / Particles / 14584
School of Particles and Accelerator
  Title:   Heavy-quark fragmentation functions at next-to-leading perturbative QCD
  Author(s): 
1.  Seyed Mohammad Moosavi Nejad
2.  P Sartipi Yarahmadi
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Eur. Phys. J. A
  No.:  315
  Vol.:  52
  Year:  2016
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
t is well-known that the dominant mechanism to produce hadronic bound states with large transverse momentum is fragmentation. This mechanism is described by the fragmentation functions (FFs) which are the universal and process-independent functions. Here, we review the perturbative FFs formalism as an appropriate tool for studying these hadronization processes and detail the extension of this formalism at next-to-leading order (NLO). Using the Suzuki's model, we calculate the perturbative QCD FF for a heavy quark to fragment into a S-wave heavy meson at NLO. As an example, we study the LO and NLO FFs for a charm quark to split into the S-wave D-meson and compare our analytic results both with experimental data and well-known phenomenological models.

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