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A Fixed-Order Calculation of the Heavy-Quark Fragmentation Function in e+e- Collisions

Paolo Nason, Carlo Oleari

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9811206

Abstract

We use a recently completed O(alphas2) fixed-order calculation of the heavy-flavour production cross section in e+e- collisions to compute the heavy-quark fragmentation function. We fit the result of our calculation, convoluted with a Peterson fragmentation function, to available data for charm production, and thus obtain a value for the parameter epsilon in the Peterson function. We discuss the relevance of mass effects and of subleading terms in our calculation.

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