Fragmentation of Partons

Abstract

The concept of parton fragmentation in QCD hard scattering phenomenology as well as NLO pQCD analysis of fragmentation functions are outlined. Hadroproduction of pions of a few GeV pT is discussed through the example of recent measurements at \sqrt{S_{RHIC}}=200 GeV.

Comments: 7 pages; Presented at XXXIV International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, July 26-August 1, 2004, Sonoma County, California, USA