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Precision Jet Substructure of Boosted Boson Decays with Energy Correlators

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-01-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We initiate the precision study of boosted jet substructure using energy correlators, applying this framework to hadronic Higgs decays. We demonstrate that the two-body decay of the Higgs manifests as a distinct angular peak at θarccos(12/γ2)\theta \sim \arccos(1-2/\gamma^2) for Lorentz boost factor γ\gamma. We show that infrared scales, such as the dead-cone effect and confinement transition, are also resolved within the boosted distribution. Precision analytic studies of boosted jet substructure may enable precision electroweak studies and open new avenues for new physics searches.

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@article{arxiv.2601.20933,
  title  = {Precision Jet Substructure of Boosted Boson Decays with Energy Correlators},
  author = {Anjie Gao and Kyle Lee and Xiaoyuan Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.20933},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

5 pages + End Matter (1 page) + Supplemental Material (5 pages), 6 figures