Fragmentation of Partons

2004/10/15 by Stefan Kretzer
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph

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published as Acta Phys.Polon. B36 (2005) 179-186 · 7 pages; Presented at XXXIV International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, July 26-August 1, 2004, Sonoma County, California, USA

arxiv created 2004/10/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

The concept of parton fragmentation in QCD hard scattering phenomenology as well as NLO pQCD analysis of fragmentation functions are outlined. Hadroproduction of pions of a few GeV pT is discussed through the example of recent measurements at √S_RHIC=200 GeV.

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