Short-Range Correlation Scaling of Nuclear Parton Modifications: Consistency Tests and Recoil-Tagged Charm-Production DIS
Abstract
We investigate short-range correlation (SRC) scaling of nuclear gluon modifications using nCTEQ SRC abundances and EPPS21 gluon distributions. Rescaling the EPPS21 central modifications by these abundances yields an approximately common curve for six nuclei from carbon to lead over 0.1≤ x≤0.4 at Q2=10 and 100 GeV2. The SRC interpretation is supported by the broad agreement between the fitted abundances and high-momentum proton fractions from variational Monte Carlo calculations. Using an SRC proton fraction of approximately 20% in carbon, the measured EMC-SRC correlation also gives a pure-SRC EMC slope of 1.94±0.12, consistent with the nCTEQ estimate 2.02±0.20. To test the connection between this scaling and SRC configurations, we propose recoil-tagged charm-production in deuteron deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), combining a backward high-momentum proton tag with a gluon-sensitive hard process. We formulate leading-power collinear factorization through an extended fracture function, which reduces within the plane-wave impulse approximation to a deuteron light-front spectral factor times a recoil-conditioned neutron gluon distribution. The tagged charm reduced cross section and its ratio to inclusive tagged DIS provide complementary observables for comparing gluon modifications in SRC-enriched configurations with the scaling inferred from inclusive nPDFs.
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BibTeX
@misc{zheng2026shortrange,
title = {{Short-Range Correlation Scaling of Nuclear Parton Modifications: Consistency Tests and Recoil-Tagged Charm-Production DIS}},
author = {Yong Zheng and Shu-Man Hu and Wei Wang and Ji Xu and Shuai Zhao},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.10104},
eprint = {2610.10104},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10104},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Short-Range Correlation Scaling of Nuclear Parton Modifications: Consistency Tests and Recoil-Tagged Charm-Production DIS
AU - Yong Zheng
AU - Shu-Man Hu
AU - Wei Wang
AU - Ji Xu
AU - Shuai Zhao
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/07
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.10104
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10104
AB - We investigate short-range correlation (SRC) scaling of nuclear gluon modifications using nCTEQ SRC abundances and EPPS21 gluon distributions. Rescaling the EPPS21 central modifications by these abundances yields an approximately common curve for six nuclei from carbon to lead over 0.1≤ x≤0.4 at Q^2=10 and 100 GeV^2. The SRC interpretation is supported by the broad agreement between the fitted abundances and high-momentum proton fractions from variational Monte Carlo calculations. Using an SRC proton fraction of approximately 20% in carbon, the measured EMC-SRC correlation also gives a pure-SRC EMC slope of 1.94±0.12, consistent with the nCTEQ estimate 2.02±0.20. To test the connection between this scaling and SRC configurations, we propose recoil-tagged charm-production in deuteron deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), combining a backward high-momentum proton tag with a gluon-sensitive hard process. We formulate leading-power collinear factorization through an extended fracture function, which reduces within the plane-wave impulse approximation to a deuteron light-front spectral factor times a recoil-conditioned neutron gluon distribution. The tagged charm reduced cross section and its ratio to inclusive tagged DIS provide complementary observables for comparing gluon modifications in SRC-enriched configurations with the scaling inferred from inclusive nPDFs.
ER -