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Description
The dynamics of shower development for a jet traveling through the quark-gluon
plasma (QGP) involves a variety of scales, including the mass for heavy flavors
in jets. During the high virtuality portion of the jet evolution, the mass of
the heavy quark affects longitudinal drag and diffusion, stimulating additional
radiation. These emissions partially compensate the reduction in radiation from
the dead cone effect. In the lower virtuality part of the shower evolution, when
the mass is comparable to the transverse momentum of the parton, scattering
and radiation processes off heavy quarks are different than off light quarks. All
these factors result in a different shower development for heavy-flavor tagged
jets vs. light-flavor jets.
In this work, we present a multi-stage calculation using a weak coupling recoil
approach to calculate jet and jet substructure observables to explore differences
between various heavy quark energy-loss mechanisms. Our work extends and
compares to previous studies that have used leading hadron and open heavy
flavor observables.
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