Light and charmed meson fragmentation measurements at Belle/BelleII

6 May 2026, 15:30
20m
Sala GIOVE A, Ground Floor (Hotel Carlton)

Sala GIOVE A, Ground Floor

Hotel Carlton

Talk WG4 QCD with Heavy Flavors and Hadronic Final States WG4 QCD with Heavy flavours and Hadronic Final States

Speaker

Ralf Seidl (RIKEN)

Description

Fragmentation functions describe the formation of final-state hadrons from high-energetic partons. As they are non-perturbative objects they cannot be calculated from first principles in QCD but need to be measured. Especially e+e- annihilation is a clean tool to extract fragmentation functions since no hadrons exist in the initial state.
We report the recent measurements by Belle/Belle II of light and charmed mesons that decay into two or three pions or kaons as a function of the relative momentum fraction. These measurements will be used in global fragmentation fits and provide input to the semi-inclusive DIS program at the Electron-Ion-Collider. They can also improve the tuning of Monte-Carlo generators.

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Author

Ralf Seidl (RIKEN)

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