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The energy-energy correlator (EEC) is an event shape observable which probes the angular correlations of energy depositions in detectors at high energy collider facilities. It has been investigated extensively in the context of precision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Hai Tao Li , Yiannis Makris , Ivan Vitev

We present a systematic formalism based on a factorization theorem in soft-collinear effective theory to describe non-global observables at hadron colliders, such as gap-between-jets cross sections. The cross sections are factorized into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-17 Thomas Becher , Matthias Neubert , Ding Yu Shao , Michel Stillger

We develop further an approach to computing energy-energy correlations (EEC) directly from finite correlation functions. In this way, one completely avoids infrared divergences. In maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory ($\mathcal{N}=4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Johannes M. Henn , Emery Sokatchev , Kai Yan , Alexander Zhiboedov

We investigate the energy-energy correlator (EEC) of hadrons produced on the same side in $e^+e^-$ annihilation or in leading jets in $pp$ collisions. We observe a remarkable universality of the correlator. Using a non-perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-29 Xiaohui Liu , Werner Vogelsang , Feng Yuan , Hua Xing Zhu

The energy-energy-correlator (EEC) observable in $e^+e^-$ annihilation measures the energy deposited in two detectors as a function of the angle between the detectors. The collinear limit, where the angle between the two detectors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-17 Lance J. Dixon , Ian Moult , Hua Xing Zhu

The hard-scattering contributions to heavy-to-light form factors at large recoil are studied systematically in soft-collinear effective theory (SCET). Large logarithms arising from multiple energy scales are resummed by matching QCD onto…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Richard J. Hill , Thomas Becher , Seung J. Lee , Matthias Neubert

We review soft-collinear effective theory (SCET), and apply it to discuss quark electromagnetic form factor, then present the resumed transverse momentum distribution of Higgs-boson production via gluon fusion under this framework, where we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yang Gao , Chong Sheng Li , Jian Jun Liu

We calculate the three-loop soft function for the production of an electroweak boson (Higgs, $\gamma$, $W^\pm$, $Z$) with large transverse momentum at a hadron collider. It is the first time a soft function for a three-parton process is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-23 Ze Long Liu , Maximilian Stahlhofen

We compute the transverse energy-energy correlation (EEC) and its asymmetry (AEEC) in next-to-leading order (NLO) in $\alpha_s$ in proton-proton collisions at the LHC with the center-of-mass energy $E_{\rm c.m.}=7$ TeV. We show that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Ahmed Ali , Fernando Barreiro , Javier Llorente , Wei Wang

We present a comprehensive global analysis of Energy-Energy Correlation (EEC) data in electron-positron annihilation into hadrons, spanning a wide range of center-of-mass energies ($7.7\,\,\text{GeV}\!\leq\!\sqrt{s}\!\leq\!…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-20 Ugo Giuseppe Aglietti , Giancarlo Ferrera , Lorenzo Rossi

We study the three-point energy correlator (EEEC), defined as a matrix element of a product of three energy detectors at different locations on the celestial sphere. Lorentz symmetry implies that the EEEC can be decomposed into special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Cyuan-Han Chang , David Simmons-Duffin

An analytic formula is given for the three-point energy correlator (EEEC) at leading order (LO) in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory ($\mathcal{N}=4$ sYM). This is the first analytic calculation of a three-parameter event shape…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-18 Kai Yan , Xiaoyuan Zhang

The distributions of two-jet event shapes contain information on hadronization in QCD. Near the two-jet limit, these distributions can be described by convolutions of nonperturbative event shape functions with the same distributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christopher Lee , George Sterman

The ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^2)$ coefficient of the energy-energy correlation function (EEC) has been calculated by four groups with differing results. This discrepancy has lead to some confusion over how to measure the strong coupling constant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. W. N. Glover , M. R. Sutton

The production of hard photons in hadronic collisions is studied using Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET). This is the first application of SCET to a physical, observable cross section involving energetic partons in more than two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-10 Thomas Becher , Matthew D. Schwartz

We analyze transverse thrust in the framework of Soft Collinear Effective Theory and obtain a factorized expression for the cross section that permits resummation of terms enhanced in the dijet limit to arbitrary accuracy. The factorization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Thomas Becher , Xavier Garcia i Tormo

The energy-energy correlator (EEC) is an observable of wide interest for collider physics and Standard Model measurements, due to both its simple theoretical description in terms of the energy-momentum tensor and its novel features for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-23 Stella T. Schindler , Iain W. Stewart , Zhiquan Sun

In view of the increasing precision of theoretical calculations and experimental measurements, power corrections to transverse-momentum-dependent observables are highly important. We study the next-to-leading power corrections for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 Rafael F. del Castillo , Max Jaarsma , Ignazio Scimemi , Wouter Waalewijn

The two-point energy-energy correlator (EEC) is a novel jet substructure observable probing the correlation of energy flow within jets. In these proceedings, three EEC measurements performed by the ALICE Collaboration are reported. First is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-21 Anjali Nambrath

We develop an effective field theory (EFT) framework to perform an analytic calculation for energy correlator observables computed on groomed heavy-quark jets. A soft-drop grooming algorithm is applied to a jet initiated by a massive quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Christopher Lee , Prashant Shrivastava , Varun Vaidya