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Conformal Collider Physics at Large Charge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-03-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study energy correlators and other event shapes in states created by operators with large global U(1)U(1) charge QQ in Conformal Field Theories. Focusing on theories whose large charge sector is described by the superfluid Effective Field Theory (EFT), we develop a systematic framework to compute event shapes within the EFT. As formerly observed, event shapes at leading order in 1/Q1/Q factorize into a product of classical expectation values determined by symmetry. In contrast, the subleading contribution to energy-energy and charge-charge correlators is a nontrivial prediction of the EFT, which we compute explicitly. Our results reveal a sharp collinear enhancement of the correlation between detectors, induced by the propagation of sound. We also generalize our findings to a broad class of event shapes.

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@article{arxiv.2503.21867,
  title  = {Conformal Collider Physics at Large Charge},
  author = {Gabriel Cuomo and Eren Firat and Filippo Nardi and Lorenzo Ricci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21867},
  year   = {2025}
}

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58 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

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