Fragmentation inside an identified jet
arXiv:1102.0489 · doi:10.1063/1.3575050
Abstract
Using Soft-Collinear Effective Theory we derive factorization formulae for semi-inclusive processes where a light hadron h fragments from a jet whose invariant mass is measured. Our analysis yields a novel "fragmenting jet function" G_i^h(s,z) that depends on the jet invariant mass \sqrt{s}, and on the fraction z of the large light-cone momentum components of the hadron and the parent parton i. We show that G_i^h(s,z) can be computed in terms of perturbatively calculable coefficients, J_{ij}(s,z/x), integrated against standard non-perturbative fragmentation functions, D_j^h(x). Our analysis yields a simple replacement rule that allows any factorization theorem depending on a jet function J_i to be converted to a semi-inclusive process with a fragmenting hadron h.
3 pages; presented at "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IX - QCHS IX" (30 August - 3 September 2010, Madrid, Spain), to appear in the proceedings