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

TL;DR

This paper discusses how future Electron-Ion Collider experiments can enhance understanding of heavy flavor production and hadronization processes through simulated studies of heavy flavor hadron and jet reconstruction, offering precise measurements to differentiate theoretical models.

Contribution

It presents simulation-based studies of heavy flavor hadron and jet reconstruction at the future EIC, providing physics projections and demonstrating the potential to distinguish between theoretical predictions.

Findings

Simulated heavy flavor measurements can discriminate between models.

Projected statistical precision is sufficient for detailed analysis.

Results include flavor-dependent nuclear modification factors.

Abstract

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 reconstruction with the recent EIC detector design have been studies 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.