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Heavy Flavor and Jet Studies for the Future Electron-Ion Collider to Explore the Hadronization Process

Journal Article · · SciPost Physics Proceedings

Heavy flavor production at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will allow us to precisely determine the quark/gluon fragmentation processes in vacuum and the nuclear medium especially within the poorly constrained kinematic region. Heavy flavor hadron and jet reconstructions with the recent EIC detector design have been studied in simulation. Results of corresponding physics projections such as the flavor dependent hadron nuclear modification factor $$R_{eA}$$ in electron+nucleus collisions will be shown. The statistical precision obtained by these proposed heavy flavor measurements for the future EIC provides a strong discriminating power in separating different theoretical predictions.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
Grant/Contract Number:
89233218CNA000001; 20200022DR
OSTI ID:
1875938
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1878077
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-22-26781; TRN: US2307468
Journal Information:
SciPost Physics Proceedings, Vol. 8; Conference: the XXVIII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2021), Stony Brook (held virtually), NY (United States), 12-16 Apr 2021; ISSN 2666-4003
Publisher:
SciPost FoundationCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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