Open Heavy Flavor Studies for the ECCE Detector at the Electron Ion Collider

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the ECCE detector's capabilities at the Electron-Ion Collider for precise heavy flavor hadron and jet measurements, enabling new insights into hadronization processes in various media.

Contribution

It provides detailed simulation-based validation of the ECCE detector's performance for heavy flavor physics at the EIC, including different magnet configurations.

Findings

ECCE enables precise heavy flavor measurements across broad kinematics.

Simulation results validate the detector's physics feasibility.

Proposed measurements will explore hadronization in vacuum and nuclear medium.

Abstract

The ECCE detector has been recommended as the selected reference detector for the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). A series of simulation studies have been carried out to validate the physics feasibility of the ECCE detector. In this paper, detailed studies of heavy flavor hadron and jet reconstruction and physics projections with the ECCE detector performance and different magnet options will be presented. The ECCE detector has enabled precise EIC heavy flavor hadron and jet measurements with a broad kinematic coverage. These proposed heavy flavor measurements will help systematically study the hadronization process in vacuum and nuclear medium especially in the underexplored kinematic region.