Fragmentation functions of mesons in the Field-Feynman model

The fragmentation functions of the pion with distinction between $D_{u}^{\pi^{+}}$, $D_{d}^{\pi^{+}}$, and $D_{s}^{\pi^{+}}$ are studied in the Field-Feynman recursive model, by taking into account the flavor structure in the excitation of quark-antiquark pairs by the initial quarks. The obtained analytical results are compatible with available empirical results. The framework is also extended to predict the fragmentation functions of the kaon with distinction between $D_{\bar{s}}^{K^{+}}(z)$, $D_{u}^{K^{+}}(z)$, $D_{s}^{K^{+}}(z)$, and $D_{d}^{K^{+}}(z)$. This work gives a significant modification of the original model, and the predictions can be tested by future experiments on the fragmentation functions of the kaon.Comment: 6 Latex pages, 10 figures, to appear in EPJ

Fragmentation Functions for Pions, Kaons, and Protons at Next-to-Leading Order

We present new sets of fragmentation functions for charged pions, charged kaons, and protons, both at the leading and next-to-leading orders. They are fitted to the scaled-momentum distributions of these hadrons measured in e+e- annihilation on the Z-boson resonance at CERN LEP1 and SLAC SLC. These data partly come as light-, charm-, bottom-quark-enriched and gluon-jet samples, which allows us to treat all partons independently, after imposing the SU(2) flavour symmetry relations. In order to gain sensitivity to the scaling violation in fragmentation, we also include data from SLAC PEP, with center-of-mass energy root(s)=29 GeV, in our fits. This allows us to also determine the strong-coupling constant, with a competitive error. LEP1 data on the longitudinal cross section as well as DESY DORIS and PETRA data at lower energies nicely agree with theoretical predictions based on our fragmentation functions.Comment: 28 pages, 11 eps figure

Heavy quark photoproduction

I present a review of selected topics in the computation of heavy flavour cross sections in photon-hadron collisions.Comment: 4 pages Latex; npb.sty included. Talk given at DIS99, 19 - 23 April 1999, Zeuthen, D

Prompt Photon and Inclusive π0\pi^0 Production at RHIC and LHC

We present results for prompt photon and inclusive $\pi^0$ production in p-p and A-A collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. We include the full next-to-leading order radiative corrections and nuclear effects, such as nuclear shadowing and parton energy loss. We find the next-to-leading order corrections to be large and $p_T$ dependent. We show how measurements of $\pi^0$ production at RHIC and LHC, at large $p_T$, can provide valuable information about the nature of parton energy loss. We calculate the ratio of prompt photons to neutral pions and show that at RHIC energies this ratio increases with $p_T$ approaching one at $p_T \sim 10$ GeV, due to the large suppression of $\pi^0$ production. We show that at the LHC, this ratio has steep $p_T$ dependence and approaches 10% effect at $p_T \sim 20$ GeV.Comment: Talk presented by I. Sarcevic, to appear in the Proceedings of Quark Matter 2002; 4 pages including 4 color figure

The non-Abelian feature of parton energy loss in energy dependence of jet quenching in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

One of the non-Abelian features of parton energy loss is the ratio $\Delta E_g/\Delta E_q=9/4$ between gluon and quark jets. Since jet production rate is dominated by quark jets at high $x_T=2p_T/\sqrt{s}$ and by gluon jets at low $x_T$, high $p_T$ hadron suppression in high-energy heavy-ion collisions should reflect such a non-Abelian feature. Within a leading order perturbative QCD parton model that incorporates transverse expansion and Woods-Saxon nuclear distribution, the energy dependence of large $p_T\sim 5-20$ GeV/$c$ hadron suppression is found to be sensitive to the non-Abelian feasture of parton energy loss and could be tested by data from low energy runs at RHIC or data from LHC.Comment: RevTex 4, 7 pages, 3 figure

Color-Octet Contributions to J/psi Photoproduction via Fragmentation at HERA

We study J/psi photoproduction via fragmentation at next-to-leading order in the QCD-improved parton model, using the nonrelativistic factorization formalism proposed by Bodwin, Braaten, and Lepage. We consider direct and resolved photoproduction of prompt J/psi mesons and chi_{cJ} mesons radiatively decaying to J/psi+gamma, taking into account the formation of both color-singlet and color-octet c anti-c states. Adopting the values of the long-distance color-octet matrix elements extracted from fits to prompt-J/psi data recently taken at the Fermilab Tevatron, we predict that measurements of J/psi photoproduction at DESY HERA should show a distinctive excess over the expectation based on the color-singlet model at small values of the inelasticity variable z. This is complementary to the expected enhancement at z close to 1 due to the color-octet contribution to photon-gluon fusion.Comment: 10 pages (Latex), 3 figures (Postscript

Energy Dependence of Jet Quenching and Life-time of the Dense Matter in High-energy Heavy-ion Collisions

Suppression of high $p_T$ hadron spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions at different energies is studied within a pQCD parton model incorporating medium induced parton energy loss. The $p_T$ dependence of the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}(p_T)$ is found to depend on both the energy dependence of the parton energy loss and the power-law behavior of the initial jet spectra. The high $p_T$ hadron suppression at $\sqrt{s}=62.4$ GeV and its centrality dependence are studied in detail. The overall values of the modification factor are found to provide strong constraints on the lifetime of the dense matter.Comment: 6 pages in RevTex with 3 postscript figure

Azimuthal Asymmetries in Hadronic Final States at HERA

The distribution of hadrons produced in deeply inelastic electron-proton collisions depends on the azimuthal angle between lepton scattering plane and hadron production plane in the photon-proton centre-of-mass frame. In addition to the well known up-down asymmetry induced by the azimuthal dependence of the Born level subprocess, there is also a non-vanishing left-right asymmetry, provided the incoming electron is polarized. This asymmetry is time-reversal-odd and induced by absorptive corrections to the Born level process. We investigate the numerical magnitude of azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive hadron production at HERA with particular emphasis on a possible determination of the time-reversal-odd asymmetry.Comment: 9 pages, LaTeX, 7 figures included, The complete paper, including figures, is also available via anonymous ftp at ftp://ttpux2.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/ttp99/ttp99-29/ or via www at http://www-ttp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/Preprints