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We study energy-energy correlators (EECs) in $e^+e^-$ annihilation and deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering (DIS), focusing on aspects of nonperturbative physics in these observables. We introduce the EEC jet functions and investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Yuxun Guo , Werner Vogelsang , Feng Yuan , Wenbin Zhao

Energy-energy correlator (EEC) is an event shape observable that characterizes the distribution of energy flux in collision events. We initiate the study of full-range EEC at hadron colliders, generalizing the extensively studied EEC in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Hao Chen , Hongyi Ruan , Hua Xing Zhu

We present a fully differential computation of $e^+\,e^-\to\gamma\,\gamma$ at next-to-next-to-leading order in QED. The process has been implemented into McMule, completing its set of next-to-next-to-leading-order calculations for the most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Tim Engel , Marco Rocco , Adrian Signer , Yannick Ulrich

We investigate the collinear limit of the energy-energy correlator (EEC) in a heavy-ion context. First, we revisit the leading-logarithmic (LL) resummation of this observable in vacuum following a diagrammatic approach. We argue that this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-25 João Barata , Paul Caucal , Alba Soto-Ontoso , Robert Szafron

The energy-energy correlation (EEC) in electron-positron annihilation plays a crucial role in precision tests of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and measurements of the QCD coupling constant. In this paper, we provide a novel analysis for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Zhu-Yu Ren , Sheng-Quan Wang , Jian-Ming Shen , Xing-Gang Wu , Leonardo Di Giustino , Philip G. Ratcliffe , Stanley J. Brodsky

Correlations in the distribution of energy produced in collider experiments provide a snapshot of the microscopic dynamics of QCD, and its evolution from asymptotically free quarks and gluons, to confined hadrons. There has recently been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-16 Max Jaarsma , Yibei Li , Ian Moult , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Hua Xing Zhu

Next-to-Leading-Order(NLO) QCD corrections to J/jpsi plus eta_c production in e+e- annihilation at sqrt{s}=10.6 GeV is calculated in this paper, and an analytic result is obtained. By choosing proper physical parameters, a K factor (ratio…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Bin Gong , Jian-Xiong Wang

Electron-positron ($e^+e^-$) collisions provide a clean environment for precision tests of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) due to the absence of hadronic initial-state effects. We present a novel analysis of archived ALEPH data from the Large…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-20 Hannah Bossi , Yu-Chen Chen , Yi Chen , Jingyu Zhang , Gian Michele Innocenti , Anthony Badea , Austin Baty , Marcello Maggi , Chris McGinn , Yen-Jie Lee

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 study the collinear limit of the energy-energy correlator (EEC) in $e^+e^-$ collisions, focusing on the transition from the perturbative QCD regime at relatively large angles to the non-perturbative region at small angles. To describe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Enrico Herrmann , Zhong-Bo Kang , Jani Penttala , Congyue Zhang

The energy correlator measures the energy deposited in multiple detectors as a function of the angles among them. In this paper, an analytic formula is given for the three-point energy correlator with full angle dependence at leading order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-06 Tong-Zhi Yang , Xiaoyuan Zhang

High precision analyses of experimental data for e+ e- annihillation, such as determination of jet rates or event shape observables, call for complete next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) perturbative QCD predictions. In this talk, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sven Moch , Peter Uwer , Stefan Weinzierl

We present a comparison of the computation of energy-energy correlation in $e^{+}e^{-}$ collisions in the back-to-back region at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy matched with the next-to-next-to-leading order perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Adam Kardos , Stefan Kluth , Gabor Somogyi , Zoltan Tulipant , Andrii Verbytskyi

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 calculate the rate for $e^+e^-$ annihilation into four jets at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD, but omitting terms that are suppressed by one or more powers of $1/\Nc^2$, where $\Nc$ is the number of colors. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 A. Signer , L. Dixon

The nucleon energy-energy correlator (NEEC) was proposed in 2209.02080 as a new way of studying nucleon intrinsic dynamics. In this work, we present a detailed derivation of the factorization theorem that enables the measurement of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-06 Haotian Cao , Xiaohui Liu , Hua Xing Zhu

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

One of the most challenging open problems in heavy quarkonium physics is the double charm production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation at B factories. The measured cross section of $e^+ e^- \to J/\psi + \eta_c$ is much larger than leading order (LO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. J. Zhang , Y. J. Gao , K. T. Chao

We derive an operator based factorization theorem for the energy-energy correlation (EEC) observable in the back-to-back region, allowing the cross section to be written as a convolution of hard, jet and soft functions. We prove the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-16 Ian Moult , Hua Xing Zhu

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