Neutral kaon production in e+e-, ep, and pp¯ collisions at next-to-leading order
Abstract
We present new sets of fragmentation functions for neutral kaons, both at leading and next-to-leading order. They are fitted to data on inclusive K0 production in e+e- annihilation taken by Mark II at SLAC PEP (√s=29 GeV) and by ALEPH at CERN LEP. Our fragmentation functions lead to a good description of other e+e- data on inclusive K0 production at various energies. They also nicely agree with the K0S transverse-momentum spectra measured by H1 at the DESY ep collider HERA, by UA5 at the CERN Spp¯S collider, and by CDF at the Fermilab Tevatron.
- Publication:
-
Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- April 1996
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.53.3573
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9506437
- Bibcode:
- 1996PhRvD..53.3573B
- Keywords:
-
- 13.65.+i;
- 13.87.Fh;
- 14.40.Aq;
- Fragmentation into hadrons;
- pi K and eta mesons;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 15 pages, latex, 7 figures (uuencoded compressed tar postscript)