Perturbative QCD Fragmentation Functions as a Phenomenological Model for Charm/Bottom Fragmentation

Abstract

The perturbative QCD fragmentation functions can be applied phenomenologically as a model for charm and bottom quark fragmentation into heavy-light mesons. The predictions by this model on the observables $P_V$ and $\langle z \rangle$ for $D-D^*$ and $B-B^*$ systems are compared with experimental data.

(Presented at the DPF94 meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 1994), 3 pages (figure not included), LaTeX with world_sci.sty, Report # NUHEP-TH-94-19