Production cross sections of light and charmed mesons in $e^+e^-$ annihilation near 10.58 GeV
Creators: name: Belle Collaboration
name: Seidl, R.
name: Adachi, I.
name: Aihara, H.
name: Aushev, T.
name: Ayad, R.
name: Banerjee, Sw.
name: Belous, K.
name: Bennett, J.
name: Bessner, M.
name: Bhuyan, B.
name: Biswas, D.
name: Bodrov, D.
name: Bračko, M.
name: Branchini, P.
name: Browder, T. E.
name: Budano, A.
name: Campajola, M.
name: Chilikin, K.
name: Cho, K.
name: Choi, S. -K.
name: Choi, Y.
name: Choudhury, S.
name: Das, S.
name: De Nardo, G.
name: De Pietro, G.
name: Di Capua, F.
name: Dingfelder, J.
name: Doležal, Z.
name: Dong, T. V.
name: Dossett, D.
name: Ecker, P.
name: Ferber, T.
name: Fulsom, B. G.
name: Gaur, V.
name: Giri, A.
name: Goldenzweig, P.
name: Graziani, E.
name: Guan, Y.
name: Gudkova, K.
name: Hadjivasiliou, C.
name: Hara, T.
name: Hayashii, H.
name: Herrmann, D.
name: Hou, W. -S.
name: Hsu, C. -L.
name: Inami, K.
name: Ipsita, N.
name: Ishikawa, A.
name: Itoh, R.
name: Iwasaki, M.
name: Jacobs, W. W.
name: Jia, S.
name: Jin, Y.
name: Joo, K. K.
name: Kaliyar, A. B.
name: Kiesling, C.
name: Kim, C. H.
name: Kim, D. Y.
name: Kim, K. -H.
name: Kodyš, P.
name: Korobov, A.
name: Korpar, S.
name: Križan, P.
name: Krokovny, P.
name: Kumar, D.
name: Kumara, K.
name: Kwon, Y. -J.
name: Lam, T.
name: Li, L. K.
name: Li, Y. B.
name: Gioi, L. Li
name: Libby, J.
name: Liventsev, D.
name: Ma, Y.
name: Masuda, M.
name: Matsuda, T.
name: Matvienko, D.
name: Merola, M.
name: Miyabayashi, K.
name: Mussa, R.
name: Nakao, M.
name: Natochii, A.
name: Niiyama, M.
name: Nishida, S.
name: Ogawa, S.
name: Ono, H.
name: Pakhlova, G.
name: Pardi, S.
name: Park, J.
name: Park, S. -H.
name: Passeri, A.
name: Patra, S.
name: Paul, S.
name: Pedlar, T. K.
name: Pestotnik, R.
name: Piilonen, L. E.
name: Podobnik, T.
name: Prencipe, E.
name: Prim, M. T.
name: Russo, G.
name: Sandilya, S.
name: Santelj, L.
name: Savinov, V.
name: Schnell, G.
name: Schwanda, C.
name: Seino, Y.
name: Senyo, K.
name: Sevior, M. E.
name: Shan, W.
name: Shiu, J. -G.
name: Shwartz, B.
name: Singh, J. B.
name: Solovieva, E.
name: Starič, M.
name: Sumihama, M.
name: Takizawa, M.
name: Tanida, K.
name: Tenchini, F.
name: Uglov, T.
name: Unno, Y.
name: Uno, S.
name: Usov, Y.
name: Van Hulse, C.
name: Vinokurova, A.
name: Vossen, A.
name: Wang, M. -Z.
name: Yabsley, B. D.
name: Yan, W.
name: Yook, Y.
name: Yuan, C. Z.
name: Yuan, L.
name: Zhang, Z. P.
name: Zhilich, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements of production cross sections for $ρ^+$, $ρ^0$, $ω$, $K^{*+}$, $K^{*0}$, $ϕ$, $η$, $K_S^0$, $f_0(980)$, $D^+$, $D^0$, $D_s^+$, $D^{*+}$, $D^{*0}$, and $D^{*+}_s$ 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 $x_p$ . The measurements are compared to {\sc pythia} Monte Carlo generator predictions with various fragmentation settings, including those that have increased fragmentation into vector mesons over pseudo-scalar mesons. The cross sections measured for light hadrons are consistent with no additional increase of vector over pseudo-scalar mesons. The charmed-meson cross sections are compared to earlier measurements -- when available -- including older Belle results, which they supersede. They are in agreement before application of an improved initial-state radiation correction procedure that causes slight changes in their \xp shapes.
description: 21 pages, 18 figures, published in Phys. Rev. D