Charm hadrons from fragmentation andBdecays ine+e−annihilation ats=10.6 GeV

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.73.032002
• Publication Date: 2006-02-06T18:30:12Z
• Authors: R. Seuster; K. Abe; H. Aihara; Y. Asano; T. Aushev; A. M. Bakich; M. Barbero; I. Bedny; U. Bitenc; I. Bizjak; A. Bozek; M. Bračko; J. Brodzicka; A. Chen; B. G. Cheon; Y. Choi; A. Chuvikov; S. Cole; J. Dalseno; M. Danilov; M. Dash; L. Y. Dong; J. Dragic; A. Drutskoy; S. Eidelman; F. Fang; T. Gershon; A. Go; G. Gokhroo; B. Golob; A. Gorišek; K. Hayasaka; M. Hazumi; Y. Hoshi; S. Hou; W.-S. Hou; T. Iijima; K. Ikado; R. Itoh; Y. Iwasaki; J. H. Kang; J. S. Kang; P. Kapusta; N. Katayama; H. Kawai; T. Kawasaki; H. R. Khan; H. Kichimi; H. J. Kim; S. M. Kim; P. Križan; P. Krokovny; R. Kulasiri; C. C. Kuo; A. Kuzmin; Y.-J. Kwon; J. S. Lange; T. Lesiak; J. Li; S.-W. Lin; F. Mandl; W. Mitaroff; H. Miyake; Y. Miyazaki; R. Mizuk; T. Nagamine; Y. Nagasaka; E. Nakano; M. Nakao; S. Nishida; O. Nitoh; S. Ogawa; T. Ohshima; T. Okabe; S. Okuno; S. L. Olsen; Y. Onuki; H. Ozaki; P. Pakhlov; H. Palka; C. W. Park; H. Park; K. S. Park; R. Pestotnik; L. E. Piilonen; Y. Sakai; N. Sato; T. Schietinger; O. Schneider; J. Schümann; C. Schwanda; M. E. Sevior; H. Shibuya; V. Sidorov; A. Somov; N. Soni; R. Stamen; S. Stanič; M. Starič; S. Y. Suzuki; F. Takasaki; K. Tamai; N. Tamura; M. Tanaka; G. N. Taylor; Y. Teramoto; X. C. Tian; S. Uehara; T. Uglov; K. Ueno; S. Uno; P. Urquijo; G. Varner; C. C. Wang; C. H. Wang; M.-Z. Wang; Q. L. Xie; B. D. Yabsley; A. Yamaguchi; Y. Yamashita; M. Yamauchi; J. Ying; Y. Yusa; L. M. Zhang; Z. P. Zhang; V. Zhilich
• Keywords: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); 0103 physical sciences; FOS: Physical sciences; 01 natural sciences; High Energy Physics - Experiment

We present an analysis of charm quark fragmentation at 10.6 GeV, based on a data sample of 103 fb collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB accelerator. We consider fragmentation into the main charmed hadron ground states, namely \DZ, \DP, \Ds and \LC, as well as the excited states \DSZ and \DSP. The fragmentation functions are important to measure as they describe processes at a low energy scale, where calculations in perturbation theory lead to large uncertainties. Fragmentation functions can also be used as input distributions for Monte Carlo generators. Additionally, we determine the average number of these charmed hadrons produced per B decay at the \Ys resonance and measure the distribution of their production angle in \epem annihilation events and in B decays.<br/>51 pages, 11 figures, replaced with version as in journal<br/>