Publications

You can find the full list of our papers through "INSPIRE-HEP" (High Energy Physics Literature Database). The publications since 2016 are listed below. 

2023

  • Predictions for the sPHENIX physics program
    R. Belmont, J. Brewer, Q. Brodsky, P. Caucal, M. Connors, M. Djordjevic, R. Ehlers, M. A. Escobedo, E. G. Ferreiro and G. Giacalone, et al., [arXiv:2305.15491 [nucl-ex]].
     
  • The case for an EIC Theory Alliance: Theoretical Challenges of the EIC
    R. Abir, I. Akushevich, T. Altinoluk, D. P. Anderle, F. P. Aslan, A. Bacchetta, B. Balantekin, J. Barata, M. Battaglieri and C. A. Bertulani, et al., [arXiv:2305.14572 [hep-ph]].
     
  • The Multiplicity Scaling of the Fragmentation Function
    Z. B. Kang, R. Kao and A. J. Larkoski, [arXiv:2305.13359 [hep-ph]].
     
  • TMD Handbook
    R. Boussarie, M. Burkardt, M. Constantinou, W. Detmold, M. Ebert, M. Engelhardt, S. Fleming, L. Gamberg, X. Ji and Z. B. Kang, et al., [arXiv:2304.03302 [hep-ph]].
     
  • Probing the jet transport coefficient of cold nuclear matter in electron-ion collisions
    P. Ru, Z. B. Kang, E. Wang, H. Xing and B. W. Zhang, [arXiv:2302.02329 [nucl-th]].

2022

  • Neutrino-tagged jets at the Electron-Ion Collider
    M. Arratia, Z. B. Kang, S. J. Paul, A. Prokudin, F. Ringer and F. Zhao, [arXiv:2212.02432 [hep-ph]].
     
  • Transverse-momentum-dependent factorization at next-to-leading power
    L. Gamberg, Z. B. Kang, D. Y. Shao, J. Terry and F. Zhao, [arXiv:2211.13209 [hep-ph]].
     
  • Transverse momentum dependent distribution functions in the threshold limit
    Z. B. Kang, K. Samanta, D. Y. Shao and Y. L. Zeng, [arXiv:2211.08341 [hep-ph]].
     
  • Studying chirality imbalance with quantum algorithms
    A. M. Czajka, Z. B. Kang, Y. Tee and F. Zhao, [arXiv:2210.03062 [hep-ph]].
     
  • Nuclear Modification of Transverse Momentum Dependent Parton Distribution Functions by a Global QCD Analysis
    M. Alrashed, D. Anderle, Z. B. Kang, J. Terry and H. Xing, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 242001 (2022).
     
  • Quantum Simulation of Chiral Phase Transitions
    A. M. Czajka, Z. B. Kang, H. Ma and F. Zhao, JHEP 08, 209 (2022).
     
  • Single inclusive jet production in pA collisions at NLO in the small-x regime
    H. Y. Liu, K. Xie, Z. B. Kang and X. Liu, JHEP 07, 041 (2022).
     
  • Transverse Lambda production at the future Electron-Ion Collider
    Z. B. Kang, J. Terry, A. Vossen, Q. Xu and J. Zhang, Phys. Rev. D 105, 094033 (2022).
     
  • Accessing subnuclear fluctuations and saturation with multiplicity dependent J/ψ production in p+p and p+Pb collisions
    F. Salazar, B. Schenke and A. Soto-Ontoso, Phys. Lett. B 827, 136952 (2022).
     
  • First global QCD analysis of the TMD g1T from semi-inclusive DIS data
    S. Bhattacharya, Z. B. Kang, A. Metz, G. Penn and D. Pitonyak, Phys. Rev. D 105, 034007 (2022).

2021

  • Spin asymmetries in electron-jet production at the future electron ion collider
    Z. B. Kang, K. Lee, D. Y. Shao and F. Zhao, JHEP 11, 005 (2021).
     
  • QCD evolution of the gluon Sivers function in heavy flavor dijet production at the Electron-Ion Collider
    Z. B. Kang, J. Reiten, D. Y. Shao and J. Terry, JHEP 05, 286 (2021).
     
  • Transverse Lambda Polarization in e+e– collisions
    L. Gamberg, Z. B. Kang, D. Y. Shao, J. Terry and F. Zhao, Phys. Lett. B 818, 136371 (2021).
     
  • Dynamic Jet Charge
    Z. B. Kang, X. Liu, S. Mantry, M.C. Spraker and T. Wilson, Phys. Rev. D 103, 074028 (2021).
     
  • Electron-Ion Collider impact study on the tensor charge of the nucleon
    L. Gamberg, Z. B. Kang, D. Pitonyak, A. Prokudin, N. Sato and R. Seidl, Phys. Lett. B 816, 136255 (2021).
     
  • Semi-inclusive jet functions and jet substructure in JET(I) and JET(II) algorithms
    L. Wang, Z. B. Kang, H. Xing and B. W. Zhang, Phys. Rev. D 103, 054043 (2021).
     
  • A global extraction of the jet transport coefficient in cold nuclear matter
    P. Ru, Z. B. Kang, E. Wang, H. Xing and B. W. Zhang, Phys. Rev. D 103, L031901 (2021).
     
  • The Sivers Asymmetry in Hadronic Dijet Production
    Z. B. Kang, K. Lee, D. Y. Shao and J. Terry, JHEP 02, 066 (2021).
     
  • Azimuthal angle for boson-jet production in the back-to-back limit
    Y. T. Chien, R. Rahn, S. Schrijnder van Velzen, D. Y. Shao, W. J. Waalewijn and B. Wu, Phys. Lett. B 815, 136124 (2021).
     
  • Global analysis of the Sivers functions at NLO+NNLL in QCD
    M. G. Echevarria, Z. B. Kang and J. Terry, JHEP 01, 126 (2021).
     
  • Efficient Fourier transforms for transverse momentum dependent distributions
    Z. B. Kang, A. Prokudin, N. Sato and J. Terry, Comput. Phys. Commun. 258, 107611 (2021).

2020

  • Jet Charge: A Flavor Prism for Spin Asymmetries at the EIC
    Z. B. Kang, X. Liu, S. Mantry and D. Y. Shao, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 242003 (2020).
     
  • QCD resummation on single hadron transverse momentum distribution with the thrust axis
    Z. B. Kang, D. Y. Shao and F. Zhao, JHEP 12, 127 (2020). 
     
  • Groomed jet mass as a direct probe of collinear parton dynamics
    D. Anderle, M. Dasgupta, B. K. El-Menoufi, M. Guzzi and J. Helliwell, Eur. Phys. J. C 80, 827 (2020).
     
  • Jet-based measurements of Sivers and Collins asymmetries at the future Electron-Ion Collider
    M. Arratia, Z. B. Kang, A. Prokudin and F. Ringer, Phys. Rev. D 102, 074015 (2020).
     
  • Polarized jet fragmentation functions
    Z. B. Kang, K. Lee and F. Zhao, Phys. Lett. B 809, 135756 (2020).
     
  • Threshold resummation for hadron production in the small-x region
    H. Y. Liu, Z. B. Kang and X. Liu, Phys. Rev. D 102, 054002(R) (2020).
     
  • Predictive power of transverse-momentum-dependent distributions
    M. Grewal, Z. B. Kang, J. W. Qiu and A. Signori, Phys. Rev. D 101, 114023 (2020). 
     
  • Extracting the transverse momentum dependent polarizing fragmentation functions
    D. Callos, Z. B. Kang and J. Terry, Phys. Rev. D 102, 096007 (2020).
     
  • The origin of single transverse-spin asymmetries in high-energy collisions
    J. Cammarota, L. Gamberg, Z. B. Kang, J. A. Miller, D. Pitonyak, A. Prokudin, T. C. Rogers and N. Sato, Phys. Rev. D 102, 054002 (2020).
     
  • Drag force to all orders in gradients
    J. Reiten and A. V. Sadofyev, JHEP 2007, 146 (2020).
     
  • The soft drop groomed jet radius at NLL
    Z. B. Kang, K. Lee, X. Liu, D. Neill and F. Ringer, JHEP 2002, 054 (2020).

2019

  • Power counting the small-x observables
    Z. B. Kang and X. Liu, arXiv:1910.10166 [hep-ph].
     
  • Jet fragmentation functions for Z-tagged jets
    Z. B. Kang, K. Lee, J. Terry and H. Xing, Phys. Lett. B 798, 134978 (2019).
     
  • A transverse momentum dependent framework for back-to-back photon+jet production
    M. Buffing, Z. B. Kang, K. Lee and X. Liu, arXiv:1812.07549 [hep-ph].
     
  • Transverse Momentum Dependent Observables from Low to High Energy: Factorization, Evolution, and Global Analyses
    Editors: D. Pitonyak, Z. B. Kang, A. Prokudin and A. Vladimirov, Adv. High Energy Phys. 2019, 1705263 (2019). 
     
  • Soft drop groomed jet angularities at the LHC
    Z. B. Kang, K. Lee, X. Liu and F. Ringer, Phys. Lett. B 793, 41 (2019).
     
  • Light and heavy flavor dijet production and dijet mass modification in heavy ion collisions
    Z. B. Kang, J. Reiten, I. Vitev and B. Yoon, Phys. Rev. D 99, 034006 (2019).
     
  • Polarized hyperon production in single-inclusive electron-positron annihilation at next-to-leading order
    L. Gamberg, Z. B. Kang, D. Pitonyak, M. Schlegel and S. Yoshida, JHEP 1901, 111 (2019).

2018

  • The groomed and ungroomed jet mass distribution for inclusive jet production at the LHC
    Z. B. Kang, K. Lee, X. Liu and F. Ringer, JHEP 1810, 137 (2018).
     
  • Jet angularity measurements for single inclusive jet production
    Z. B. Kang, K. Lee and F. Ringer, JHEP 1804, 110 (2018).
     
  • Predictions for p+Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy of 8.16 TeV
    J. L. Albacete et al., Nucl. Phys. A 972, 18 (2018). 

2017

  • Effective field theory approach to open heavy flavor production in heavy-ion collisions
    Z. B. Kang, F. Ringer and I. Vitev, JHEP 1703, 146 (2017).
     
  • Unveiling the nucleon tensor charge at Jefferson Lab: A study of the SoLID case
    Z. Ye, N. Sato, K. Allada, T. Liu, J. P. Chen, H. Gao, Z. B. Kang, A. Prokudin, P. Sun and F. Yuan, Phys. Lett. B 767, 91 (2017).
     
  • Inclusive production of small radius jets in heavy-ion collisions
    Z. B. Kang, F. Ringer and I. Vitev, Phys. Lett. B 769, 242 (2017).
     
  • Pre-Town Meeting on spin physics at an Electron-Ion Collider
    Editors: L. Gamberg, Z. B. Kang and A. Prokudin. E. C. Aschenauer et al., Eur. Phys. J. A 53, 71 (2017).
     
  • Phenomenological constraints on AN in p p → π X from Lorentz invariance relations
    L. Gamberg, Z. B. Kang, D. Pitonyak and A. Prokudin, Phys. Lett. B 770, 242 (2017).
     
  • J/ψ production and polarization within a jet
    Z. B. Kang, J. W. Qiu, F. Ringer, H. Xing and H. Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 032001 (2017).
     
  • Vector boson-tagged jet production in heavy ion collisions at the LHC
    Z. B. Kang, I. Vitev and H. Xing, Phys. Rev. C 96, 014912 (2017).
     
  • The energy distribution of subjets and the jet shape
    Z. B. Kang, F. Ringer and W. J. Waalewijn, JHEP 1707, 064 (2017). 
     
  • The transverse momentum distribution of hadrons within jets
    Z. B. Kang, X. Liu, F. Ringer and H. Xing, JHEP 1711, 068 (2017).
     
  • Collins azimuthal asymmetries of hadron production inside jets
    Z. B. Kang, A. Prokudin, F. Ringer and F. Yuan, Phys. Lett. B 774, 635 (2017).

2016

  • Jet substructure using semi-inclusive jet functions within SCET
    Z. B. Kang, F. Ringer and I. Vitev, JHEP 1611, 155 (2016).
     
  • Transverse momentum broadening in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering at next-to-leading order
    Z. B. Kang, E. Wang, X. N. Wang and H. Xing, Phys. Rev. D 94, 114024 (2016).
     
  • The semi-inclusive jet function in SCET and small radius resummation for inclusive jet production
    Z. B. Kang, F. Ringer and I. Vitev, JHEP 1610, 125 (2016).
     
  • Extraction of quark transversity distribution and Collins fragmentation functions with QCD evolution
    Z. B. Kang, A. Prokudin, P. Sun and F. Yuan, Phys. Rev. D 93, 014009 (2016).
     
  • Jet quenching from QCD evolution
    Y. T. Chien, A. Emerman, Z. B. Kang, G. Ovanesyan and I. Vitev, Phys. Rev. D 93, 074030 (2016). 
     
  • Spin asymmetries for vector boson production in polarized p+p collisions
    J. Huang, Z. B. Kang, I. Vitev and H. Xing, Phys. Rev. D 93, 014036 (2016).
     
  • Jet fragmentation functions in proton-proton collisions using soft-collinear effective theory
    Y. T. Chien, Z. B. Kang, F. Ringer, I. Vitev and H. Xing, JHEP 1605, 125 (2016).
     
  • Predictions for p+Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy of 5 TeV: comparison with data
    J. L. Albacete et al., Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 25, 1630005 (2016). 
     
  • Next-to-leading order transverse momentum broadening for Drell-Yan production in p+A collisions
    Z. B. Kang, J. W. Qiu, X. N. Wang and H. Xing, Phys. Rev. D 94, 074038 (2016).