Power corrections and renormalons in fragmentation functions Original Research Article

We estimate the power corrections (infrared renormalon contributions) to the coefficient functions for the transverse, longitudinal and asymmetric fragmentation functions in e+e− annihilation, using a method based on the analysis of one-loop Feynman graphs containing a massive gluon. The leading corrections have the expected 1/Q2 behaviour, but the gluonic coefficients of the longitudinal and transverse contributions separately have strong singularities at small x, which cancel in their sum. This leads to 1/Q corrections to the longitudinal and transverse parts of the annihilation cross section, which cancel in the total cross section.