Document Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
2016
DOI
10.1088/1742-6596/770/1/012042
Publication Title
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume
770
Issue
1
Pages
012042
Conference Name
XII International Conference on Beauty, Charm, and Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions (Beach 2016), 12-18 June 2016, Fairfax, Virginia
Abstract
An Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with center-of-mass energies √seN ∼ 20-100 GeV and luminosity L ∼ 10³⁴ cm-² s-¹ would offer new opportunities to study heavy quark production in high-energy electron or photon scattering on protons and nuclei. We report about an R&D project exploring the feasibility of direct measurements of nuclear gluon densities at x >∼ 0.1 (gluonic EMC effect, antishadowing) using open charm production at EIC. We describe the charm production rates and angle-momentum distributions at large x and discuss methods of charm reconstruction using next-generation detector capabilities (π/K identification, vertex reconstruction). The results could be used also for other physics applications of heavy quark production at EIC (fragmentation functions, jets, heavy quark propagation in nuclei).
Rights
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Original Publication Citation
Chudakov, E., Higinbotham, D., Hyde, C., Furletov, S., Furletova, Y., Nguyen, D., Stratmann, M., Strikman, M., & Weiss, C. (2016). Heavy quark production at an electron-ion collider. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 770(1), 012042. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/770/1/012042
ORCID
0000-0001-7282-8120 (Hyde)
Repository Citation
Chudakov, E.; Higinbotham, D.; Hyde, C.; Furletov, S.; Furletova, Yu; Nguyen, D.; Stratmann, M.; Strickman, M.; and Weiss, C., "Heavy Quark Production at an Electron-Ion Collider" (2016). Physics Faculty Publications. 915.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/physics_fac_pubs/915
