Lepton-Jet Correlations in Deep Inelastic Scattering at the Electron-Ion Collider

2018/12/19 by Xiaohui Liu, Felix Ringer, Werner Vogelsang +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Collider #Deep inelastic scattering #Electron #Electron scattering #Heavy ion #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Inelastic scattering #Ion #Jet (fluid) #Lepton #Nuclear physics #Nucleon #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quark #Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider #Scattering #Transverse plane #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.122.192003

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 192003 (2019) · 6 pages, 4 figures

arxiv created 2018/12/19 · openalex publication_date 2019/05/15 · arxiv updated 2019/05/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We propose the lepton-jet correlation in deep inelastic scattering as a unique tool for the tomography of nucleons and nuclei at the electron-ion collider (EIC). The azimuthal angular correlation between the final state lepton and jet depends on the transverse momentum dependent quark distributions. We take the example of single transverse spin asymmetries to show the sensitivity to the quark Sivers function. When the correlation is studied in lepton-nucleus collisions, transverse momentum broadening effects can be used to explore cold nuclear matter effects. These features make lepton-jet correlations an important new hard probe at the EIC.

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