Simulations of nuclear modification effects using energy correlators in jets for the Electron-Ion Collider

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will collide electrons with protons and nuclei to study Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of the strong force. The EIC offers an experimentally clean environment to investigate hadronization, the process in which scattered quarks and gluons transition into hadrons. When quarks and gluons are scattered, their fragments can form collimated sprays of particles known as jets. Jets are excellent tools to study hadronization thanks to the encoded momentum and energy information known as jet substructure observables. In this talk, I present simulation studies of jet observables known as energy correlators for the EIC. The two-point energy correlators (EEC) are statistical correlations of the energy flux of jet constituents. Using simulated electron-proton (ep) collisions and electron-nucleus (eA) collisions generated from the Monte Carlo event generator BeAGLE, we build EEC to investigate nuclear modification effects in hadronization. Nuclear modifications are changes in behavior of scattered partons as they traverse a nuclear medium instead of vacuum. To understand how well nuclear modifications in energy correlators can be measured at the EIC, the energy and angular information of jet constituents are smeared to simulate detector resolution effects.