Probing Partonic Evolution and Hadronization via Balance Functions and Correlations of Charmed Hadrons
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2025-07-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Predictions of charm correlation functions and more specifically balance functions are presented in proton--proton (pp) collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 13 TeV based on the PYTHIA 8.3 event generator. Correlations are computed for identical and cross-species charmed hadrons in both minimum bias and high-pT biased collisions. We study the strength of correlations as a function of the number of balanced flavors and investigate the impact of variations of PYTHIA parameters controlling the Lund string fragmentation on the shape and strength of the correlation functions. The feasibility of measurements of the charm balance function presented is discussed in the context of the future LHC experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.21014,
title = {Probing Partonic Evolution and Hadronization via Balance Functions and Correlations of Charmed Hadrons},
author = {Oveis Sheibani and Claude Pruneau and Victor Gonzalez and Sumit Basu and Alexandru Florin Dobrin and Yash Patley and Basanta Nandi and Sadhana Dash},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.21014},
year = {2025}
}
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11 pages, 9 figures