Determination of meson fragmentation functions in the Field-Feynman model

Abstract

We study the fragmentation functions of both pions and kaons in the Field-Feynman recursive model with the extended SU(2) flavor symmetry relations of fragmentation functions and fitting parameters. Parametrizations are determined from a leading-order (LO) analysis of HERMES experimental multiplicity data of meson production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering, and uncertainties are estimated with the Hessian method. We compare our results with the experimental data and the analysis results of other parametrizations. The SU(2) flavor symmetry breaking effect of meson fragmentation functions of $ud$ quarks is also discussed, and we show that the fragmentation functions of kaons have a bigger SU(2) flavor symmetry breaking effect of $ud$ quarks than these of pions.

16 pages, 12 figures, version for publication

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