EPJ Web of Conferences 85, 02016 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20158502016

Phenomenology from SIDIS and e⁺e⁻ multiplicities: multiplicities and phenomenology - part I

¹ INFN Sezione di Pavia, via Bassi 6, I-27100 Pavia Italy
² Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, via Bassi 6, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands
⁴ Nikhef, Science Park 105, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, the Netherlands

^a e-mail: alessandro.bacchetta@unipv.it
^b e-mail: miguelge@nikhef.nl
^c e-mail: marco.radici@pv.infn.it
^d e-mail: asignori@nikhef.nl

Published online: 23 January 2015

Abstract

This study is part of a project to investigate the transverse momentum dependence in parton distribution and fragmentation functions, analyzing (semi-)inclusive high-energy processes within a proper QCD framework. We calculate the transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) multiplicities for e⁺e⁻ annihilation into two hadrons (considering different combinations of pions and kaons) aiming to investigate the impact of intrinsic and radiative partonic transverse momentum and their mixing with flavor. Different descriptions of the non-perturbative evolution kernel (see, e.g., Refs. [1–5]) are available on the market and there are 200 sets of flavor configurations for the unpolarized TMD fragmentation functions (FFs) resulting from a Monte Carlo fit of Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) data at Hermes (see Ref. [6]). We build our predictions of e⁺e⁻ multiplicities relying on this rich phenomenology. The comparison of these calculations with future experimental data (from Belle and BaBar collaborations) will shed light on non-perturbative aspects of hadron structure, opening important insights into the physics of spin, flavor and momentum structure of hadrons.