Perturbative QCD Fragmentation Functions as a Model for Heavy-Quark Fragmentation

E. Braaten; K. Cheung; S. Fleming; T.C. Yuan

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Perturbative QCD Fragmentation Functions as a Model for Heavy-Quark Fragmentation

E. Braaten, K. Cheung, S. Fleming, T.C. Yuan

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 15 Sep 1994 · 22 references

Pith's verdict: The HQET next-to-leading derivation is real, checkable work; the heavy-light model is a clearly-labeled ansatz, and the headline P_V(z) shape is more robust than the single fitted parameter behind it.

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Bottom line: the HQET part is real work and it checks out; the model part is an ansatz the authors label as such, and the headline P_V(z) curve is sturdier than the one fitted parameter that anchors it. Worth a referee's time, not a general-interest paper. What is actually new: the next-to-leading 1/m_Q terms b(y) and b*(y) in Eqs. (28) and (30), derived with general C3, plus the explicit demonstration that the C2 pieces cancel between propagator and vertex corrections. That cancellation is a genuine consistency check, not decoration. The C3=1 limit reproduces the m_b to infinity limit of the b-bar to B_c functions from their earlier paper, which is the right cross-check. The k_T-dependent distributions (43)-(44) are new and useful. The paper is also candid about where the expansion dies: y to infinity at small z, y to 1 near z=1, and the negative-fragmentation problem when C3 is not 1. Dropping the expansion and using the full PQCD functions as the model is the right call. Soft spots, in order of weight. The heavy-light transplant is the big one: Eqs. (31)-(32) are the b-bar to B_c functions with r reinterpreted as m_q/(m_Q+m_q). The paper says plainly it is proposing this as a model, so it is not hidden, but nothing derives it, and the light quark in the template was a charm, not a u/d/s. The stress-test worry about P_V(0)=1/2 is fair: that endpoint is a model output, not a spin-symmetry result. Only the 3/4 at z=1 is derived, from the spin factor of 3 in Eq. (27). The paper could say that more sharply. The r-from-total-P_V-then-predict-P_V(z) loop is mild: Fig. 4 shows the shape moves by under 11% across the r range, so the shape prediction survives. Gauge invariance is asserted rather than shown in a second gauge, but the cross-section-ratio definition in Eq. (9) makes that a non-issue. Who it is for: people doing heavy-flavor fragmentation phenomenology, D and B spin alignment, and anyone still using Peterson as a default. Recommendation: send it out. The derivation is checkable line by line and the prediction is falsifiable.

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[Abstract and Section V, Fig. 4] The headline prediction that P_V varies from about 1/2 at small z to almost 3/4 near z=1 combines two endpoints of different epistemic status. The 3/4 at z=1 follows from heavy-quark spin symmetry through the leading term a(y) in Eq. (27), which is derived in Section II. The 1/2 at z=0, however, is a property of the full PQCD fragmentation functions in Eqs. (31)-(32), which are taken from Ref. [6] for the heavy-heavy b-bar → B_c system and transplanted to heavy-light mesons as a model. The paper's own HQET expansion breaks down as z→0 (y→∞), as acknowledged in Section II. The abstract and Section V should state explicitly that the small-z endpoint is a model prediction, not a QCD derivation, so that readers do not over-interpret the 1/2 as a first-principles result.
[Sections III-IV] The model uncertainty from using the heavy-heavy PQCD fragmentation functions of Ref. [6] as a template for heavy-light mesons is not discussed. The paper fits r from the total P_V and notes that P_V(z) is insensitive to r (less than about 11%), but it does not quantify or even acknowledge the systematic uncertainty from the template choice itself. This is load-bearing for the model's predictive power: if the light-quark dynamics differ from the heavy-heavy case, the z-shape and the small-z endpoint could shift. The paper should discuss this systematic separately from the r uncertainty.

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[Section IV, first paragraph] The sentence 'it is rigorously correct in the limit m_q ≫ Λ_QCD' should read 'm_Q ≫ Λ_QCD' (heavy-quark mass, not light-quark mass).
[Section IV, Suzuki comparison] The claim that 'If a general covariant gauge had been used, Suzuki's fragmentation functions would have depended on the gauge parameter' is a strong assertion about another author's calculation, but the paper does not demonstrate it. The paper should either show explicitly how the gauge dependence arises in Suzuki's model or soften the claim to a statement about the gauge invariance of the present calculation.
[Section V, Eq. (55)] The fit of r from the measured total P_V = 0.65 ± 0.06 and the subsequent prediction of P_V(z) should be clarified as a one-parameter fit to one observable, with the z-shape as a genuine prediction. The paper does say this, but a more explicit sentence would help a reader avoid conflating the fit with the prediction.
[Section II, Eq. (1)] The definition of the scaling variable y in Eq. (1) is central to the paper and should be checked for clarity; the printed form is difficult to parse and a reader could misread the denominator.
[Section III, Eqs. (47)-(48)] The phase space constraint and the inhomogeneous evolution equation are cited from Ref. [9]; the paper should clarify that this is a modification of the model, not a derivation from the present calculation.
[Section V, Fig. 4] The paper should state explicitly in the figure caption or surrounding text that the 1/2 at z=0 is a model feature, not a QCD prediction, to match the clarification requested in the major comments.

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Using heavy-quark effective theory, the authors extend perturbative QCD fragmentation functions to next-to-leading order in 1/m_Q and predict that the vector-meson fraction in a heavy-quark jet runs from about 1/2 at small z to about 3/4 near z = 1.

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When a heavy quark such as a charm or bottom quark is produced in a high-energy collision, it does not reach the detector as a free particle. It dresses itself with light quarks and gluons and emerges as a jet of hadrons, and the hadron carrying most of the original quark's momentum is called the leading hadron. The probability distribution of that leading hadron's momentum fraction is the fragmentation function. For mesons containing one heavy quark and one light antiquark, the fragmentation function can be computed in perturbative QCD if the heavy quark is heavy enough. Earlier work by some of the same authors computed these functions for the case where both quark and antiquark are heavy. This paper does the heavy-light case systematically, using heavy-quark effective theory to organize the answer as an expansion in the inverse heavy-quark mass. The leading term is fixed by heavy-quark spin symmetry, which says vector and pseudoscalar mesons are produced in a 3-to-1 ratio. The next-to-leading term breaks that symmetry and is computed here. The authors then take the full perturbative expressions, not just the expansion, and propose them as a phenomenological model with two parameters: an overall normalization and a mass ratio r. Fitting r to the measured D-meson vector fraction of 0.65 gives r about 0.10, and scaling to B mesons gives about 0.03. With those numbers the model predicts how the vector fraction varies with momentum fraction z: about one half at small z, rising to roughly three quarters as z approaches one. It also predicts how the fraction falls with transverse momentum relative to the jet axis.

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The load-bearing claim is that the perturbative QCD fragmentation functions, taken as a two-parameter model, predict the vector-meson fraction P_V to run from about 1/2 at small longitudinal momentum fraction z to almost 3/4 near z = 1 (abstract s5; Section V and Fig. 4). The supporting derivation is the HQET computation of the next-to-leading 1/m_Q terms b(y) and b*(y) in Eqs. (28) and (30), which reproduces the m_b to infinity limit of the earlier PQCD result of Ref. [6] when C3 = 1. The nontrivial check is that the C2 terms cancel between propagator and vertex corrections, as the paper shows explicitly.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the PQCD fragmentation functions computed for a heavy quark plus heavy antiquark (b-bar to B_c in Ref. [6]) can be transplanted to the heavy-light case by treating r as the ratio of a constituent light-quark mass to the meson mass (Section III, Eqs. 31 and 32). Nothing in the paper derives this; it is a modeling choice, and the fitted r_D = 0.10 (about 200 MeV constituent mass) is the only empirical anchor. If the heavy-light system requires dynamics not captured by the heavy-heavy template, the P_V(z) shape prediction loses its basis.

Original abstract

The perturbative QCD fragmentation functions for a heavy quark to fragment into heavy-light mesons are studied in the heavy-quark limit. The fragmentation functions for S-wave pseudoscalar and vector mesons are calculated to next-to-leading order in the heavy-quark mass expansion using the methods of heavy-quark effective theory. The results agree with the $m_b\to \infty$ limit of the perturbative QCD fragmentation functions for $\bar b$ into $B_c$ and $B_c^*$. We discuss the application of the perturbative QCD fragmentation functions as a model for the fragmentation of heavy quarks into heavy-light mesons. Using this model, we predict the fraction $P_{V}$ of heavy-light mesons that are produced in the vector meson state as functions of the longitudinal momentum fraction $z$ and the transverse momentum relative to the jet axis. The fraction $P_V$ is predicted to vary from about 1/2 at small $z$ to almost 3/4 near $z=1$.

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The perturbative QCD fragmentation functions for a heavy quark to fragment into heavy-light mesons are studied in the heavy-quark limit. The fragmentation functions for S-wave pseudoscalar and vector mesons are calculated to next-to-leading order in the heavy-quark mass expansion using the methods of heavy-quark effective theory. The results agree with the $m_b\to \infty$ limit of the perturbative QCD fragmentation functions for $\bar b$ into $B_c$ and $B_c^*$. We discuss the application of the perturbative QCD fragmentation functions as a model for the fragmentation of heavy quarks into heavy-light mesons. Using this model, we predict the fraction $P_{V}$ of heavy-light mesons that are produced in the vector meson state as functions of the longitudinal momentum fraction $z$ and the transverse momentum relative to the jet axis. The fraction $P_V$ is predicted to vary from about 1/2 at small $z$ to almost 3/4 near $z=1$.

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[1] [6]

E. Braaten, K. Cheung, and T. C. Yuan, Phys. Rev. D48, R5049 (1993)

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[2] [1]

See, for example, B. Grinstein, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 42, 101 (1992); M. Neubert, preprint SLAC-PUB-6263, (June 1993)

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[3] [2]

R. Jaﬀe and L. Randall, Nucl. Phys. B412, 79 (1994)

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[4] [3]

E. Braaten and T. C. Yuan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 1673 (1993)

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[5] [4]

C.-H. Chang and Y.-Q. Chen, Phys. Lett. B284, 127 (1992); Phys. Rev. D46, 3845 (1992)

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E. Braaten, K. Cheung, and T. C. Yuan, Phys. Rev. D48, 4230 (1993)

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K. Cheung, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 3413 (1993)

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K. Cheung and T. C. Yuan, Phys. Lett. B325, 481 (1994)

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E. Braaten, M. A. Doncheski, S. Fleming, and M. L. Mangano, Phy s. Lett. B333, 548 (1994)

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C. Peterson, D. Schlatter, I. Schmidt, and P. Zerwas, Phys. Rev. D27, 105 (1983)

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M. Suzuki, Phys. Rev. D33, 676 (1986)

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G. Curci, W. Furmanski, and R. Petronzio, Nucl. Phys. B175, 27 (1980); J. C. Collins and D. E. Soper, Nucl. Phys. B194, 445 (1982); also B193, 381 (1981)

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J. P. Ma, Phys. Lett. B332, 398 (1994)

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F. Ezawa, Nuovo Cim. 23A, 271 (1974); G.R. Farrar and J.D. Jackson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 35, 1416 (1975); G.P. Lepage and S.J. Brodsky, Phys. Rev. D22, 2157 (1980). 22

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