August 29, 2022 to September 4, 2022
America/New_York timezone

In-Medium Branching Processes, Their Features, And Applications to the EIC

Sep 2, 2022, 11:35 AM
20m
Camelia/Dogwood

Camelia/Dogwood

Parallel session talk Nuclear Forces and Structure, NN Correlations, and Medium Effects NN: Nuclear Forces and Structure, NN Correlations, and Medium Effects

Speaker

Dr Ivan Vitev (LANL)

Description

Recently developed effective theories of QCD in matter have enabled the derivation of medium-induced branching processes as a function of nuclear opacity. I will demonstrate how splitting functions can be derived for both light partons and heavy quarks and discuss how parton showers in matter differ from the ones in the vacuum. These advances allow us to bridge the gap between high energy and nuclear theory and introduce higher order and resumed calculations to QCD phenomenology with nuclei. I will demonstrate this with three examples: i) inclusive light and heavy flavor meson production that can shed light on the physics of hadronization; ii) light and heavy jet production to constrain the transport properties of cold nuclear matter, and iii) jet substructure that, in the long run, can provide the most detailed insights into the microscopic physics of multiple parton interactions in nuclei.

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