New D-meson fragmentation functions from LEP and LHC

5 May 2026, 10:00
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

Felix Hekhorn (University of Jyväskylä)

Description

We discuss a new extraction of D-meson fragmentation functions using experimental data from LEP and LHC. We focus particularly on kinematical regimes where perturbative QCD should be safely applicable to avoid contamination from higher-twist effects which could lead to an apparent process dependence of fragmentation functions. We account for the initial-state radiation and, as a novel ingredient, consider the prompt and non-prompt contributions separately. The analysis is carried out at next-to-leading order accuracy for $D^0$, $D^\pm$, and $D^*$ mesons, including uncertainty estimation based on Monte-Carlo replica technique.

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Authors

Felix Hekhorn (University of Jyväskylä) Hannu Paukkunen (University of Jyväskylä) Ilkka Helenius (University of Jyväskylä, Department of Physics) Dr Maria Zurita (Complutense University of Madrid)

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