The role of quark polarization in heavy quark fragmentation

摘要

We calculate the exact fragmentation functions for a and b quark fragmentation taking into account the spin orientation of the initial heavy quark in the form of analytical and rather simple expressions. Our calculations show that spin orientation may have an important effect on the fragmentation spectrum. This effect is more striking in the cases of c→D, D~*; c→ψ,η, and b→B_c,B~*_c.