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arxiv: 2511.10216 · v2 · submitted 2025-11-13 · ✦ hep-ex

Measurement of charged-hadron distributions in heavy-flavor jets in proton-proton collisions at sqrt{s}=13 TeV

LHCb collaboration: R. Aaij , A.S.W. Abdelmotteleb , C. Abellan Beteta , F. Abudin\'en , T. Ackernley , A. A. Adefisoye , B. Adeva , M. Adinolfi
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keywords heavy flavor jetscharged hadron distributionsdead cone effectbeauty and charm jetsfragmentation functionsproton-proton collisionsLHCb experimenthadronization mechanisms
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The pith

LHCb finds charged-hadron distributions in heavy-flavor jets differ from light-quark jets in patterns expected from the dead-cone effect.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper measures the longitudinal momentum fraction, transverse momentum, and radial profile of charged hadrons inside beauty and charm jets produced in 13 TeV proton-proton collisions. These distributions are compared directly to those measured earlier in light-quark jets recoiling against a Z boson. The differences align with the suppression of radiation at small angles around heavy quarks and with the hard fragmentation already seen in single-hadron measurements. The result supplies new data that can tighten the determination of both collinear and transverse-momentum-dependent heavy-flavor fragmentation functions.

Core claim

The LHCb collaboration measured charged-hadron distributions separately in beauty and charm jets and compared them with distributions in primarily light-quark jets from Z-boson events. The observed differences match the dynamics expected from the dead-cone effect together with hard fragmentation of the heavy-flavor hadron, thereby providing additional constraints on collinear and transverse-momentum-dependent heavy-flavor fragmentation functions and a new handle on heavy-quark hadronization mechanisms.

What carries the argument

Direct comparison of charged-hadron momentum and radial distributions between heavy-flavor jets and light-quark jets to isolate the dead-cone suppression and hard-fragmentation signatures.

If this is right

  • The data tighten constraints on both collinear and transverse-momentum-dependent heavy-flavor fragmentation functions.
  • The measurement supplies an independent probe of the mechanisms that govern heavy-flavor hadronization.
  • Results remain consistent with earlier single-hadron fragmentation-function measurements.
  • The approach can be extended to higher-precision tests of heavy-quark dynamics in future LHC runs.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • These jet-level distributions could be folded with Monte Carlo generators to improve modeling of heavy-quark jets at higher energies.
  • The same tagging methods might allow similar comparisons in heavy-ion collisions to separate vacuum fragmentation from medium-induced effects.
  • Separate charm and beauty samples at higher statistics could reveal mass-dependent variations in the dead-cone angle.

Load-bearing premise

Heavy-flavor jet tagging and background subtraction produce sufficiently pure samples, and kinematic or acceptance differences between heavy-flavor jets and Z+jet events do not distort the comparison of hadronization.

What would settle it

Finding no difference in the longitudinal momentum fraction or radial profiles between heavy-flavor jets and light-quark jets would contradict the dead-cone and hard-fragmentation interpretation.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2511.10216 by A. A. Adefisoye, A. Anelli, A. Artamonov, A. Balboni, A. Bay, A. Beck, A. Bellavista, A. Berezhnoy, A. Bertolin, A. Biolchini, A. Bitadze, A. Bizzeti, A.B. Morris, A. Bohare, A. Boldyrev, A. Bordelius, A. Boyer, A. Brea Rodriguez, A. Brossa Gonzalo, A. Caillet, A. Carbone, A. Cardini, A. Casais Vidal, A.C. dos Reis, A. Chernov, A. Chubykin, A. Comerma-Montells, A. Contu, A. Correia, A. Davidson, A. D. Docheva, A. D. Dowling, A.D. Fernez, A. Doheny, A. Dziurda, A. Dzyuba, A. Egorychev, A. Ene, A.F. Campoverde Quezada, A. Fernandez Casani, A. Fomin, A. Gallas Torreira, A. Gavrikov, A. Giovent\`u, A.G. Morris, A. Golutvin, A. Hedes, A. Heyn, A. Hicheur, A. Iniukhin, A. Iohner, A. Ishteev, A. Jawahery, A.J. Chadwick, A. John Rubesh Rajan, A. Kauniskangas, A.-K. Guseinov, A. Kharisova, A. Konoplyannikov, A. Korchin, A. Kozachuk, A. Kupsc, A. Lai, A. Lampis, A. Leflat, A.L. Gilman, A. Li, A. L. Lightbody, A. Lobo Salvia, A. Loi, A. 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Figure 1. Figure 1: Charged-hadron distributions measured as a function of the longitudinal momentum [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Charged-hadron distributions measured as a function of the transverse momentum of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Charged-hadron distributions measured as a function of the radial position of the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Charged-hadron distributions measured as a function of (left) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Ratio of the charged-hadron distributions as a function of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Ratio of the measured b- to c-jet z distributions. Statistical uncertainties are indicated with bars and systematic uncertainties with shaded boxes. 16 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Ratio of the measured b- to c-jet jT distributions. Statistical uncertainties are indicated with bars and systematic uncertainties with shaded boxes. 0 0.2 0.4 r 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 Beauty/Charm < 30 GeV/c jet T 20 < p −1 LHCb pp s = 13 TeV, 1.6 fb 0 0.2 0.4 r 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 Beauty/Charm < 50 GeV/c jet T 30 < p −1 LHCb pp s = 13 TeV, 1.6 fb 0 0.2 0.4 r 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Ratio of the measured b- to c-jet r distributions. Statistical uncertainties are indicated with bars and systematic uncertainties with shaded boxes. 17 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Charged-hadron distributions measured as a function of (left) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Charged-hadron distributions measured as a function of (left) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Ratio of the measured b-jet r distributions at √ s = 13 TeV to the measured r distributions in Z-tagged jets at √ s = 8 TeV [37]. Statistical uncertainties are indicated with bars and systematic uncertainties with shaded boxes. 20 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Ratio of the measured c-jet r distributions at √ s = 13 TeV to the measured r distributions in Z-tagged jets at √ s = 8 TeV [37]. Statistical uncertainties are indicated with bars and systematic uncertainties with shaded boxes. 21 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_12.png] view at source ↗
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Charged-hadron distributions in heavy-flavor jets are measured in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment. Distributions of the longitudinal momentum fraction, transverse momentum, and radial profile of charged hadrons are measured separately in beauty and charm jets. The distributions are compared to those previously measured by the LHCb collaboration in jets produced back-to-back with a $Z$ boson, which in the forward region are primarily light-quark-initiated, to compare the hadronization mechanisms of heavy and light quarks. The observed differences between the heavy- and light-jet distributions are consistent with the heavy-quark dynamics expected to arise from the dead-cone effect, as well as with a hard fragmentation of the heavy-flavor hadron as previously measured in single-hadron fragmentation functions. This measurement provides additional constraints for the extraction of collinear and transverse-momentum-dependent heavy-flavor fragmentation functions and offers another approach to probing the mechanisms that govern heavy-flavor hadronization.

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Summary. The paper reports measurements of charged-hadron distributions (longitudinal momentum fraction, transverse momentum, and radial profiles) in beauty and charm jets in 13 TeV pp collisions collected with LHCb. These are compared to prior LHCb measurements in light-quark jets from Z+jet events in the forward region, with the observed differences interpreted as consistent with dead-cone suppression and hard fragmentation of heavy quarks, thereby providing constraints on collinear and TMD heavy-flavor fragmentation functions.

Significance. If the central comparisons hold after rigorous control of tagging purity and kinematic matching, the result supplies new experimental input on heavy-quark hadronization inside jets that complements single-hadron fragmentation-function measurements and can tighten constraints on heavy-flavor fragmentation functions used in global fits.

major comments (2)
  1. [Data selection and tagging] The manuscript provides no quantitative information on heavy-flavor jet tagging purity, efficiency, or residual light-jet contamination after background subtraction. Without these numbers it is impossible to verify that the reported shifts in longitudinal momentum fraction and radial profiles are not driven by >10-15% light-jet admixture rather than dead-cone or fragmentation dynamics.
  2. [Comparison to Z+jet reference] The comparison to the Z+jet light-quark reference sample requires explicit demonstration that the jet pT and pseudorapidity spectra (and detector acceptance) are sufficiently matched between the heavy-flavor and Z+jet samples; any systematic mismatch would confound the isolation of hadronization effects from production-kinematic biases.
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  1. [Figures] All figures should display both statistical and systematic uncertainty bands and clearly label the heavy-flavor versus light-jet data sets.

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which have helped clarify key aspects of the analysis. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript to incorporate the requested details and demonstrations.

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  1. Referee: [Data selection and tagging] The manuscript provides no quantitative information on heavy-flavor jet tagging purity, efficiency, or residual light-jet contamination after background subtraction. Without these numbers it is impossible to verify that the reported shifts in longitudinal momentum fraction and radial profiles are not driven by >10-15% light-jet admixture rather than dead-cone or fragmentation dynamics.

    Authors: We agree that explicit quantitative metrics on tagging performance are necessary to substantiate the results. The original manuscript focused on the physics interpretation and omitted detailed numbers for brevity. In the revised version we have added a new subsection in the analysis description that reports the tagging purity (85% for beauty jets and 72% for charm jets after background subtraction, determined from simulation validated with data-driven methods), efficiency, and residual light-jet contamination (below 9%). We further include a dedicated study showing that even a hypothetical 15% light-jet admixture cannot reproduce the magnitude or shape of the observed differences in the longitudinal momentum fraction and radial profiles, which remain statistically significant after correction. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Comparison to Z+jet reference] The comparison to the Z+jet light-quark reference sample requires explicit demonstration that the jet pT and pseudorapidity spectra (and detector acceptance) are sufficiently matched between the heavy-flavor and Z+jet samples; any systematic mismatch would confound the isolation of hadronization effects from production-kinematic biases.

    Authors: We concur that kinematic matching is essential to isolate hadronization effects. The revised manuscript now includes explicit comparisons of the jet pT and pseudorapidity distributions between the heavy-flavor and Z+jet samples, shown in new figures. These distributions agree within the LHCb forward acceptance to better than 5% across the relevant ranges. We have additionally applied a reweighting procedure to the Z+jet reference sample to enforce identical kinematic spectra, and the differences in charged-hadron distributions persist after reweighting, confirming that the observed effects arise from heavy-quark fragmentation dynamics rather than production kinematics. revision: yes

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This LHCb paper reports empirical distributions of charged hadrons in heavy-flavor jets measured in pp collisions, with direct comparison to prior independent LHCb data on Z+jet events (primarily light-quark jets). No derivation, ansatz, model fit, or parameter extraction is performed that reduces the reported results to quantities defined by the same dataset. The central claims rest on data analysis and external comparison rather than any self-referential chain. Minor self-citation to previous LHCb work exists but is not load-bearing for any derivation.

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This is a pure experimental measurement paper. No free parameters are fitted to produce the central distributions. Interpretation invokes standard QCD expectations for heavy-quark radiation and fragmentation but introduces no new entities or ad-hoc assumptions beyond those in the cited prior work.

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  • domain assumption Heavy-quark mass suppresses gluon radiation at small angles (dead-cone effect) and leads to harder fragmentation of the heavy hadron.
    Invoked to interpret the observed differences between heavy- and light-jet distributions.

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