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High Energy Physics Seminar

Monday, May 13, 2024
4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Heavy quark transverse momentum-dependent fragmentation
Zhiquan Sun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Heavy (bottom and charm) quarks are ideal probes of the nonperturbative dynamics of confinement, since heavy quarks effectively serve as static color sources during the entire hadronization cascade. In this talk, I present the new study of transverse momentum-dependent (TMD) fragmentation functions (FFs) for heavy quarks, demonstrate their factorization in terms of novel nonperturbative matrix elements in heavy-quark effective theory (HQET), and prove new TMD sum rules that arise from heavy-quark spin symmetry.

I also present the calculation of all TMD parton distribution functions (PDFs) for the production of heavy quarks from polarized gluons within the nucleon, and use our results to demonstrate the potential of the future EIC to resolve TMD heavy-quark fragmentation in semi-inclusive DIS, complementing the planned EIC program to use heavy quarks as probes of gluon distributions.

The talk is in 469 Lauritsen.

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