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On the Fragmentation Function for Heavy Quarks in e+e- collisions

P. Nason, C. Oleari

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9709358

Abstract

We use a recent O(alphas2) calculation of the differential cross section for the production of heavy quarks in e+e- annihilation to compute a few moments of the heavy quark single-inclusive production cross section. We verify that, contrary to some recent claims, the leading and next-to-leading logarithmic terms in this cross section are correctly given by the standard NLO fragmentation function formalism for heavy quark production.

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