Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2016

DOI

10.22323/1.265.0143

Publication Title

Proceedings of XXIV International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects - PoS(DIS2016)

Volume

265

Pages

143

Conference Name

Proceedings of XXIV International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects - PoS(DIS2016), 11-15 April, 2016, Hamburg, Germany

Abstract

We explore the feasibility of direct measurements of nuclear gluon densities using heavy-quark production (open charm, beauty) at a future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). We focus on the regions x> 0.3 (EMC effect) and x ~ 0.05-0.1 (antishadowing), where the nuclear modifications of the gluon density offer insight into non-nucleonic degrees of freedom and the QCD structure of nucleon-nucleon interactions. We describe the charm production rates and momentum distributions in nuclear deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) at Large XB, and comment on the possible methods for charm reconstruction using next-generation detectors at the EIC (π/K identification, tracking, vertex detection).

Comments

Short title: "Probing nuclear gluons with heavy flavors at EIC."

Original Publication Citation

Chudakov, E., Higinbotham, D., Hyde, C., Furletov, S., Furletova, Y., Nguyen, D., Sato, N., Stratmann, M., Strickman, M., & Weiss, C. (2016). Probing nuclear gluons with heavy flavors at an Electron-Ion Collider. Proceedings of XXIV International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects - PoS(DIS2016), 265, 143. https://doi.org/10.22323/1.265.0143

ORCID

0000-0001-7282-8120 (Hyde)

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