Charm jets as a probe for strangeness at the future Electron-Ion Collider
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2021-05-05 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We explore the feasibility of the measurement of charm-jet cross sections in charged-current deep-inelastic scattering at the future Electron-Ion Collider. This channel provides clean sensitivity to the strangeness content of the nucleon in the high- region. We estimate charm-jet tagging performance with parametrized detector simulations. We show the expected sensitivity to various scenarios for strange parton distribution functions. We argue that this measurement will be key to future QCD global analyses, so it should inform EIC detector designs and luminosity requirements.
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@article{arxiv.2006.12520,
title = {Charm jets as a probe for strangeness at the future Electron-Ion Collider},
author = {Miguel Arratia and Yulia Furletova and T. J. Hobbs and Fredrick Olness and Stephen J. Sekula},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.12520},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
17 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables; added new plots showing PDF error bands in s(x,Q) and Rs(x,Q) to illustrate range of uncertainty on these quantities