Speaker
Description
Understanding the nonperturbative process of hadronization is a persistent
goal in experimental studies of QCD. Since heavy quark production is suppressed
at the hadronization scale, heavy-flavor hadrons offer a high-precision probe of
the connection between theoretical calculations and experimental final states.
Jets containing different flavors of these heavy hadrons, reconstructed across
a broad range of jet transverse momentum, explore the dependence of local
hadronic formation at different partonic mass scales with distinct final states.
Furthermore, quarkonia production in jets explores the intersection between
the parton shower, where gluons split into heavy quark-antiquark pairs, and
the production of closed heavy-flavor hadrons. Jet substructure can also be
used to probe the formation of exotic hadrons, whose structure is still not well
understood. This talk presents recent studies of hadronization using heavy-
flavor jets detected with the LHCb detector. These studies include inclusive
hadron production in heavy-flavor jets, as well as quarkonia and tetraquark
production in jets. Results are compared to various models of hadronization,providing strong new constraints on theoretical predictions of confinement in
jets.
| Category | Experiment |
|---|---|
| Collaboration | LHCb |
