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arxiv: 1102.0489 · v1 · pith:ADQC2P3Hnew · submitted 2011-02-02 · ✦ hep-ph

Fragmentation inside an identified jet

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keywords hadronanalysisfactorizationfragmentationfragmentingfunctioninvariantmass
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Using Soft-Collinear Effective Theory we derive factorization formulae for semi-inclusive processes where a light hadron h fragments from a jet whose invariant mass is measured. Our analysis yields a novel "fragmenting jet function" G_i^h(s,z) that depends on the jet invariant mass \sqrt{s}, and on the fraction z of the large light-cone momentum components of the hadron and the parent parton i. We show that G_i^h(s,z) can be computed in terms of perturbatively calculable coefficients, J_{ij}(s,z/x), integrated against standard non-perturbative fragmentation functions, D_j^h(x). Our analysis yields a simple replacement rule that allows any factorization theorem depending on a jet function J_i to be converted to a semi-inclusive process with a fragmenting hadron h.

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