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The $z_g$ distribution for heavy flavour jets in dense quark-gluon plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-03-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study the zgz_g distribution for heavy flavour, i.e. bottom and charm quark, jets propagating through the dense QCD medium. We extend the late emission approximation for Armesto-Salgado-Wiedemann (ASW) formula to heavy flavours. % We consider both the normalised and NjetN_{\rm jet} normalised zgz_g distributions, and the ratio of the latter distributions to the vacuum ones, called the R ratio. We demonstrate that since there is no collinear singularity in the medium, there is no principal need to use the Sudakov safety technique for medium-induced emission (MIE). We see that contrary to the vacuum case, the normalised zgz_g distribution is sensitive to the dead cone angle value. In particular, for the case of NjetN_{jet} normalised distribution with θgθcut\theta_g\le \theta_{cut}, it is possible to directly probe the dead cone gluons in the medium. Our results can be useful to guide the experimental measurements of the heavy flavour jet substructure in dense QCD medium.

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@article{arxiv.2312.15560,
  title  = {The $z_g$ distribution for heavy flavour jets in dense quark-gluon plasma},
  author = {Boris Blok and Chang Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.15560},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

42 pages, 31 figures, we slightly changed the name, and corrected the equations for heavy quark jet gluon multiplicities in DLA , some references are also added