  It has recently been shown that a KNO-like scaling is fulfilled inside the
jets, which indicates that the KNO scaling is violated by complex vacuum-QCD
processes outside the jet development, such as single and double parton
scattering or softer multiple-parton interactions. In the current work we
investigated the scaling properties of heavy-flavor jets using Monte-Carlo
simulations. We found that while jets from leading-order flavor-creation
processes exhibit a flavor-dependent pattern, heavy-flavor jets from production
in the parton shower follow the inclusive-jet pattern. This suggests that the
KNO-like scaling is driven by initial hard parton production and not by
processes in the later stages of the reaction.
