Production cross sections of light and charmed mesons in e e- annihilation near 10.58 GeV

R Seidl; I Adachi; H Aihara; T Aushev; R Ayad; S Banerjee; K Belous; J Bennett; M Bessner; B Bhuyan; D Biswas; D Bodrov; M Bračko; P Branchini; TE Browder; A Budano; M Campajola; K Chilikin; K Cho; SK Choi; Y Choi; S Choudhury; S Das; G De Nardo; G De Pietro; F Di Capua; J Dingfelder; Z DoleŽal; TV Dong; D Dossett; P Ecker; T Ferber; BG Fulsom; V Gaur; A Giri; P Goldenzweig; E Graziani; Y Guan; K Gudkova; C Hadjivasiliou; T Hara; H Hayashii; D Herrmann; WS Hou; CL Hsu; K Inami; N Ipsita; A Ishikawa; R Itoh; M Iwasaki; WW Jacobs; S Jia; Y Jin; KK Joo; AB Kaliyar; C Kiesling; CH Kim; DY Kim; KH Kim; P Kodyš; A Korobov; S Korpar; P KriŽan; P Krokovny; D Kumar; K Kumara; YJ Kwon; T Lam; LK Li; YB Li; L Li Gioi; J Libby; D Liventsev; Y Ma; M Masuda; T Matsuda; D Matvienko; M Merola; K Miyabayashi; R Mussa; M Nakao; A Natochii; M Niiyama; S Nishida; S Ogawa; H Ono; G Pakhlova; S Pardi; J Park; SH Park; A Passeri; S Patra; S Paul; TK Pedlar; R Pestotnik; LE Piilonen; T Podobnik; E Prencipe; MT Prim; G Russo

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Production cross sections of light and charmed mesons in e e- annihilation near 10.58 GeV

R Seidl, I Adachi, H Aihara, T Aushev, R Ayad, S Banerjee, K Belous, J Bennett, M Bessner, B Bhuyan, D Biswas, D Bodrov, M Bračko, P Branchini, TE Browder, A Budano, M Campajola, K Chilikin, K Cho, SK Choi Show all

Physical Review D | American Physical Society (APS) | Published : 2025

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.111.052003

Abstract

We report measurements of production cross sections for ρ+, ρ0, ω, K∗+, K∗0, φ, η, KS0, f0(980), D+, D0, Ds+, D∗+, D∗0, and Ds∗+ in e+e- collisions at a center-of-mass energy near 10.58 GeV. The data were recorded by the Belle experiment, consisting of 571 fb-1 at 10.58 GeV and 74 fb-1 at 10.52 GeV. Production cross sections are extracted as a function of the fractional hadron momentum xp. The measurements are compared to pythia Monte Carlo generator predictions with various fragmentation settings, including those that have increased fragmentation into vector mesons over pseudoscalar mesons. The cross sections measured for light hadrons are consistent with no additional increase of vector ov..

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