Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-10-03
JHEP0604:006,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
48 pages, 24 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2006/04/006
We compare QCD theoretical predictions for heavy flavoured mesons fragmentation spectra in e+ e- annihilation with data from CLEO, BELLE and LEP. We include several effects in our calculation: next-to-leading order initial conditions, evolution and coefficient functions. Soft-gluon effects are resummed at next-to-leading-log accuracy. A matching condition for the crossing of the bottom threshold in evolution is also implemented at next-to-leading order accuracy. Important initial-state electromagnetic radiation effects in the CLEO and BELLE data are accounted for. We find that, with reasonably simple choices of a non-perturbative correction to the fixed-order initial condition for the evolution, the data from CLEO and BELLE can be fitted with remarkable accuracy. The fitted fragmentation function, when evolved to LEP energies, does not however represent fairly the D* fragmentation spectrum measured by ALEPH. Large non-perturbative corrections to the coefficient functions of the meson spectrum are needed in order to reconcile CLEO/BELLE and ALEPH results. Non-perturbative parameters extracted from the fits to e+ e- fragmentation data for D/D* and B mesons are tabulated. They can be employed in the theoretical predictions for the production of charmed and bottomed mesons in hadron-hadron, photon-hadron and photon-photon collisions.
Cacciari Matteo
Nason Paolo
Oleari Carlo
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