English

Heavy Flavor Jet Substructure at Lepton Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-09-10 v2

Abstract

We provide a detailed analysis of event-shape observables, namely the energy correlation function and jet angularity, for heavy-flavor jets produced in electron-positron collisions, focusing on quantum chromodynamics (QCD) interactions. Using modern jet substructure techniques, we investigate the dead-cone effect, where QCD radiation is suppressed around a heavy quark within an angle proportional to its mass. Our analysis achieves next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy, combined with fixed-order contributions, to improve the description of the transition near the dead-cone threshold. To ensure a comprehensive perspective, we compare our analytical results with predictions from the Pythia, Herwig and Sherpa Monte Carlo simulations at past and future lepton colliders.

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@article{arxiv.2502.07894,
  title  = {Heavy Flavor Jet Substructure at Lepton Colliders},
  author = {Prasanna K. Dhani and Oleh Fedkevych and Andrea Ghira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.07894},
  year   = {2025}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures

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