Panknin, Regine Antje: Extraction of Fragmentation Functions from Charged Kaon and Pion Production at COMPASS. - Bonn, 2013. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5n-32232,
author = {{Regine Antje Panknin}},
title = {Extraction of Fragmentation Functions from Charged Kaon and Pion Production at COMPASS},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2013,
month = dec,

note = {Quark helicity distributions can be accessed by measuring spin asymmetries in polarised deep-inelastic scattering, but for a full flavour separation the precise knowledge of quark fragmentation functions is essential. Those can only be inferred from experimental data, and are still poorly determined today. The few existing parametrisations of fragmentation functions are derived from world data (mainly on electron-positron annihilation), and often differ considerably, most notably for strange quarks.
This thesis presents an independent evaluation of fragmentation functions from deep-inelastic scattering data recorded at the COMPASS experiment. A method of extraction was developed, based on the relation between hadron multiplicities, rh(x, z), unpolarised parton distribution functions, q(x), and quark fragmentation functions into hadrons, Dqh(z). (In this work x stands for the Bjorken scaling variable, and z for the fraction of the quark momentum that is transferred to the produced hadron.) Multiplicities for charged kaons and pions from 2004 data extracted by the COMPASS collaboration and two sets of unpolarised parton distribution functions from global parametrisations (CTEQ6 and MSTW) were used as input for a system of equations, and five different fragmentation functions (Dfav, Dunf for pions and Dstr, Dfav, Dunf for kaons) were extracted in four z bins. To evaluate the stability of the results a number of tests was performed, among them limiting the x range of the multiplicities and unpolarised parton distribution functions used for the analysis, and comparing them to results derived with a set of artificial multiplicities generated with the particle physics event generator PYTHIA.
Four of the five extracted fragmentation functions - Dfav and Dunf for both pions and kaons - are quite stable with regard to the parton distribution used as well as to the x range in which the analysis was performed, and agree with an earlier evaluation by the EMC collaboration. The fifth fragmentation function, Dstr for charged kaons, shows incompatible results for the different x intervals of the multiplicities used in the analysis, and also differs considerably for the two parametrisations of unpolarised parton distribution functions. The extracted values for Dstr are often negative - and therefore physically impossible, and do not agree with predictions from parametrisations.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/5691}
}

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