A fragmentation approach to jet flavor

Simone Caletti (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova and INFN, Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, Geneva, 16146, Italy) ; Andrew Larkoski (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA) ; Simone Marzani (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova and INFN, Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, Geneva, 16146, Italy) ; Daniel Reichelt (Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom)

An intuitive definition of the partonic flavor of a jet in quantum chromodynamics is often only well-defined in the deep ultraviolet, where the strong force becomes a free theory and a jet consists of a single parton. However, measurements are performed in the infrared, where a jet consists of numerous particles and requires an algorithmic procedure to define their phase space boundaries. To connect these two regimes, we introduce a novel and simple partonic jet flavor definition in the infrared. We define the jet flavor to be the net flavor of the partons that lie exactly along the direction of the Winner-Take-All recombination scheme axis of the jet, which is safe to all orders under emissions of soft particles, but is not collinear safe. Collinear divergences can be absorbed into a perturbative fragmentation function that describes the evolution of the jet flavor from the ultraviolet to the infrared. The evolution equations are linear and a small modification to traditional DGLAP and we solve them to leading-logarithmic accuracy. The evolution equations exhibit fixed points in the deep infrared, we demonstrate quantitative agreement with parton shower simulations, and we present various infrared and collinear safe observables that are sensitive to this flavor definition.

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Published on:
25 October 2022
Publisher:
Springer
Published in:
Journal of High Energy Physics , Volume 2022 (2022)
Issue 10
Pages 1-29
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2022)158
arXiv:
2205.01117v1
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CC-BY-4.0

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