Inclusive production of light mesons (${\mathrm{\pi }}^0$,η,${\mathrm{\pi }}^{\pm }$,${\mathit{K}}^{\pm }$) at the Fermilab Tevatron is considered in QCD to next-to-leading order in the formalism of fragmentation functions. We present various distributions of phenomenological interest, along with a new set of K meson fragmentation functions. The fragmentation properties of jets in charged and neutral pions are also considered.

• Received 25 April 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.52.3853