Di-hadron Fragmentation Functions beyond LO

Abstract

In this talk, we discuss the extraction of Dihadron Fragmentation Functions (DiFFs) beyond leading order. In particular, we review the latest extraction by the MAP Collaboration of the Unpolarized Dihadron Fragmentation Functions (DiFFs) from a fit of the 2017 BELLE data for the inclusive ${\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ pair production within the same jet in $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ annihilations. This new extraction improves the perturbative QCD accuracy by including NNLO calculations, relies on Monte Carlo generators only for flavor decomposition, and complements the traditional physics-informed parametrization with a Neural Network extraction. We also discuss the setup for the extraction of the transversely polarized DiFFs, where we revisit the NLO calculation for $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ annihilation into a transversely polarized quark-antiquark pair, obtaining a result different from the one reported in the literature.

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of DIS2026 (33rd International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects), Bologna, Italy