Inclusive hadron electroproduction at HERA at NLO with and without transverse-momentum constraint

Abstract

We study single-hadron inclusive electroproduction in ep scattering at DESY HERA at next-to-leading order in the parton model of quantum chromodynamics endowed with non-perturbative fragmentation functions. Specifically, we consider charged-hadron production, with unspecified transverse momentum p_T, in the Breit frame and D^{*+-} production as a function of p_T, and perform comparisons with recent data from the H1 Collaboration.

Comments: 5 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the XIV International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2006), 20-24 April 2006, Tsukuba City, Japan; Fig. 2 corrected