Study of Jet Substructure in the Photoproduction Events in ep Collisions at the EIC Proposed Energies

Jets are studied in photoproduction produced ep collisions at the proposed EIC energies, \(\sqrt{s}\) = 30–140 GeV. The contribution of the photoproduction sub-processes, direct and resolved, are studied separately. The data is generated using the event generators, PYTHIA8. The jets are reconstructed using the longitudinally invariant kT-algorithm in the standalone software package FASTJET3. The substructure of the gluon-and-quark-initiated jets is studied and predictions are made for the sub-jet multiplicities in the two sub-processes. Comparison of the jet shapes in gluon versus quark jets is presented in terms thick and thin jets.