Abstract

We report new measurements of the production cross sections of pairs of charged pions and kaons as a function of their fractional energies using various fractional-energy definitions. Two different fractional-energy definitions were used and compared to the conventional fractional-energy definition reported previously. The new variables aim at either identifying dihadron cross sections in terms of single-hadron fragmentation functions, or to provide a means of characterizing the transverse momentum created in the fragmentation process. The results were obtained applying the updated initial-state radiation correction used in other recent Belle publications on light-hadron production cross sections. In addition, production cross sections of single charged pions, kaons, and protons were also updated using this initial-state radiation correction. The cross sections are obtained from a $558\,{\rm fb}^{-1}$ data sample collected at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^+ e^-$ collider.

Highlights

  • The hadronization of highly energetic partons into finalstate hadrons is often parametrized in terms of fragmentation functions

  • We report new measurements of the production cross sections of pairs of charged pions and kaons as a function of their fractional energies using various fractional-energy definitions

  • The results were obtained applying the updated initial-state radiation correction used in other recent Belle publications on light-hadron production cross sections

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

The hadronization of highly energetic partons into finalstate hadrons is often parametrized in terms of fragmentation functions. Theorists brought to our attention two different fractional-energy or momentum definitions: one that facilitates the interpretation of cross sections for pairs of nearly back-to-back hadrons in terms of singlehadron fragmentation functions [3], the other serves to highlight the transverse momentum produced in the fragmentation process [4]. In these alternative definitions, no additional thrust or hemisphere requirements are explicitly necessary since their definitions take the selection of back-to-back hadrons originating from two different partons into account directly via scalar products between the two hadron four-momenta. Hadron yields are calculated in bins of fractional energy z for each hadron

UPDATE OF SINGLE-HADRON CROSS SECTION MEASUREMENTS
Updated ISR correction
Systematics and results
UPDATE OF DIHADRON CROSS SECTION MEASUREMENTS
Findings
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