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We present the analytic calculation of the leading order three-point energy correlator (EEEC) in hadronic Higgs decays, including both gluon-initiated channel $H\rightarrow g g+X$ and quark-initiated channel $H\rightarrow q\bar q+X$. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-28 Tong-Zhi Yang , Xiaoyuan Zhang

We report on a complete calculation of electroweak production of top quark pairs in $e^+e^-$ annihilation at next-to-next-to-leading order in Quantum Chromodynamics. Our setup is fully differential and can be used to calculate any…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-07 Jun Gao , Hua Xing Zhu

Energy correlators are a type of observables that measure how energy is distributed across multiple detectors as a function of the angles between pairs of detectors. In this paper, we study the three-point energy correlator (EEEC) at lepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-15 Anjie Gao , Tong-Zhi Yang , Xiaoyuan Zhang

Energy-energy correlators (EECs), which are energy-weighted cross-sections of particle pairs, offer incisive probes into QCD dynamics, across the full scale of jet evolution, by separating energy scales in the jet fragmentation through the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-12-16 Minyoung Hwang

By utilizing the di-hadron fragmentation formalism, we extend the previous factorization of nearside energy-energy correlators (EEC) in the collinear limit and derive an all order resummation in the Fourier transform $b_T$-space. A perfect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-22 Yuxun Guo , Feng Yuan , Wenbin Zhao

This paper presents a fully-corrected measurement of the energy-energy correlator (EEC) within jets in pp collisions. The EEC traces the energy flow as a highly energetic parton undergoes a QCD shower followed by the confinement of partons…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-01 ALICE Collaboration

We present the first determination of the strong coupling constant from a fit of next-to-next-to-leading order QCD predictions to event-shape variables, measured in $e^+e^-$ annihilations at LEP. The data have been collected by the ALEPH…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-30 G. Dissertori , A. Gehrmann-De Ridder , T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , G. Heinrich , H. Stenzel

We review the theoretical ideas and tools required to arrive at a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) description of the heavy quark-antiquark production cross section in $e^+e^-$ annihilation for the case that the center of mass kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. H. Hoang

We present a new calculation of the $O(\alpha_s^2)$ coefficient of the energy-energy correlation function (EEC) using two different schemes to cancel infrared and collinear poles. The numerical evaluation uses the phase space slicing and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Kramer , H. Spiesberger

The fully resummed next-to-leading-order perturbative calculation of the energy-energy correlation in $e^+e^-$ annihilation is extended to include the leading non-perturbative power-behaved contributions computed using the ``dispersive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Yu. L. Dokshitzer , G. Marchesini , B. R. Webber

The energy-energy correlator (EEC) and multiplicity are two fundamental observables probing complementary aspects of QCD jets: the former characterizes the angular structure of energy flows in a scale-dependent manner, while the latter is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-02 Pi Duan , Weiyao Ke , Guang-You Qin , Lei Wang

We recently completed a calculation of the process $e^+e^- \to Q\bar{Q}+X$, where Q is a heavy quark, at order $O(\alpha_s^2)$. As a first application of this calculation we compute the momentum correlations of $b\bar{b}$ pairs at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 P. Nason , C. Oleari

Energy correlators characterize the asymptotic energy flow in scattering events produced at colliders, from which the microscopic physics of the scattering can be deduced. This view of collisions is akin to analyses of the Cosmic Microwave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-23 Ankita Budhraja , Wouter J. Waalewijn

We investigate energy correlators in semi-inclusive electron-positron annihilation as precision probes of parton hadronization dynamics. Using soft-collinear effective theory, we analyze the correlation patterns between the examined hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Yu Jiao Zhu

We have determined the strong coupling alpha-s from a comprehensive study of energy-energy correlations (EEC) and their asymmetry (AEEC) in hadronic decays of Z0 bosons collected by the SLD experiment at SLAC. The data were compared with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-25 K. Abe

The projected energy correlator measures the energy deposited in multiple detectors as a function of the largest angular distance $x_L = (1 - \cos\chi_L)/2$ between detectors. The collinear limit $x_L\to 0$ of the projected energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-17 Wen Chen , Jun Gao , Yibei Li , Zhen Xu , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Hua Xing Zhu

Energy-energy correlators (EECs) provide a powerful tool to study the evolution of scattered partons into final-state hadrons. In these proceedings, a variety of energy correlator measurements performed by the ALICE collaboration are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-07-01 Beatrice Liang-Gilman

We compute the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the six most important event shape variables related to three-particle final states in electron-positron annihilation. The corrections are sizeable for all variables,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 A. Gehrmann-De Ridder , T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , G. Heinrich

Radiative corrections due to initial state radiation in electron-positron annihilation are calculated within the QED structure function approach. Results are shown in the next-to-leading logarithmic approximation up to $O(\alpha^4 L^3)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-12 A. B. Arbuzov , U. E. Voznaya

We present an operator based factorization formula for the transverse energy-energy correlator in the back-to-back (dijet) region, and uncover its remarkable perturbative simplicity and relation to transverse momentum dynamics. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-29 Anjie Gao , Hai Tao Li , Ian Moult , Hua Xing Zhu