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Analytic and Monte Carlo Studies of Jets with Heavy Mesons and Quarkonia

Reggie Bain·Lin Dai·Andrew Hornig·Adam K. Leibovich·Yiannis Makris·Thomas Mehen
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We study jets with identified hadrons in which a family of jet-shape variables called angularities are measured, extending the concept of fragmenting jet functions (FJFs) to these observables. FJFs determine the fraction of energy, z, carried by an identified hadron in a jet with angularity, τ_a. The FJFs are convolutions of fragmentation functions (FFs), evolved to the jet energy scale, with perturbatively calculable matching coefficients. Renormalization group equations are used to provide resummed calculations with next-to-leading logarithm prime (NLL') accuracy. We apply this formalism to two-jet events in e^+ e^- collisions with B mesons in the jets, and three-jet events in which a J/ψis produced in the gluon jet. In the case of B mesons, we use a phenomenological FF extracted from e^+ e^- collisions at the Z^0 pole evaluated at the scale μ= m_b. For events with J/ψ, the FF can be evaluated in terms of Non-Relativistic QCD (NRQCD) matrix elements at the scale μ=2 m_c. The z and τ_a distributions from our NLL' calculations are compared with predictions from monte carlo event generators. While we find consistency between the predictions for B mesons and the J/ψdistributions in τ_a, we find the z distributions for J/ψdiffer significantly. We describe an attempt to merge PYTHIA showers with NRQCD FFs that gives good agreement with NLL' calculations of the z distributions.

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Reggie Bain, Lin Dai, Andrew Hornig, Adam K. Leibovich, Yiannis Makris, Thomas Mehen. 2016-06-16. Analytic and Monte Carlo Studies of Jets with Heavy Mesons and Quarkonia. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2016)121

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