Published August 1, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Extrapolating parton fragmentation to low Q2 in e+-e- collisions

  • 1. CENPA 354290, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 (United States)

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We analyze the energy-scale dependence of fragmentation functions from e+-e- collisions using conventional momentum measures xp and ξp and rapidity y. We find that replotting fragmentation functions on a normalized rapidity variable results in a compact form precisely represented by the beta distribution, its two parameters varying slowly and simply with parton energy scale Q. The resulting parameterization enables extrapolation of fragmentation functions to low Q in order to describe fragment distributions at low transverse momentum pt in heavy ion collisions at RHIC

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
74
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 034012-034012.19
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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