Article: A determination of the fragmentation functions of pions, kaons, and protons with faithful uncertainties: The NNPDF Collaboration.
The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
2017 Volume 77, Issue 8, Page(s) 516
Abstract: We present NNFF1.0, a new determination of the fragmentation functions (FFs) of charged pions, charged kaons, and protons/antiprotons from an analysis of single-inclusive hadron production data in electron-positron annihilation. This determination, ... ...
Abstract | We present NNFF1.0, a new determination of the fragmentation functions (FFs) of charged pions, charged kaons, and protons/antiprotons from an analysis of single-inclusive hadron production data in electron-positron annihilation. This determination, performed at leading, next-to-leading, and next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD, is based on the NNPDF methodology, a fitting framework designed to provide a statistically sound representation of FF uncertainties and to minimise any procedural bias. We discuss novel aspects of the methodology used in this analysis, namely an optimised parametrisation of FFs and a more efficient [Formula: see text] minimisation strategy, and validate the FF fitting procedure by means of closure tests. We then present the NNFF1.0 sets, and discuss their fit quality, their perturbative convergence, and their stability upon variations of the kinematic cuts and the fitted dataset. We find that the systematic inclusion of higher-order QCD corrections significantly improves the description of the data, especially in the small- |
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Language | English |
Publishing date | 2017-08-03 |
Publishing country | France |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 1459069-4 |
ISSN | 1434-6052 ; 1434-6044 |
ISSN (online) | 1434-6052 |
ISSN | 1434-6044 |
DOI | 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5088-y |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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