Resummation effects in the bottom-quark fragmentation function

We compute the perturbative component of the fragmentation function of the
b quark to the best of the present theoretical knowledge. The fixed-order calculation to
order α2
s of the fragmentation function at the initial scale is matched with soft-emission
logarithm resummation to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy, so that order-α2
s
corrections are accounted for exactly, and logarithmically enhanced contributions from
loops of b quarks are included. This requires the calculation of the Mellin transform of
the order-α2
s result in the whole complex plane for the Mellin variable, which we provide
for the first time for all the fragmenting partons. Evolution is performed to next-to-next-
to-leading log accuracy, and mixing with the gluon fragmentation function is taken into
account. The perturbative fragmentation functions are made available via LHAPDF grids.