The partonic origin of multiplicity scaling in heavy and light flavor jets

Abstract

It has recently been shown that a KNO-like scaling is fulfilled inside the jets, which indicates that the KNO scaling is violated by complex vacuum-QCD processes outside the jet development, such as single and double parton scattering or softer multiple-parton interactions. In the current work we investigated the scaling properties of heavy-flavor jets using Monte-Carlo simulations. We found that while jets from leading-order flavor-creation processes exhibit a flavor-dependent pattern, heavy-flavor jets from production in the parton shower follow the inclusive-jet pattern. This suggests that the KNO-like scaling is driven by initial hard parton production and not by processes in the later stages of the reaction.

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