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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

Energy-energy correlators are constructed by averaging the number of charged particle pairs within jets, weighted by the product of their transverse momenta, as a function of the angular separation of the particles within a pair. They are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-23 CMS Collaboration

We present a jet-free approach for measuring energy-energy correlators (EEC) in proton-proton (pp) collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), employing an event-topology method that does not rely on explicit jet reconstruction. Using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-04 Yazhen Lin , Liang Zheng , Zhongbao Yin

We study the one-point energy correlator (OPEC) at both the back-to-back and collinear limits in electron-proton and electron-nucleus collisions. We provide the factorization formalism for the two types of OPEC and present phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Yu Fu , Zhong-Bo Kang , Jani Penttala , Yiyu Zhou

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

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

Jet substructure is a powerful tool to probe the time evolution of a parton shower. However, many of the analysis methods used to extract splitting formation times from jet substructure, such as Soft Drop grooming and the Lund plane, focus…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-09-13 Andrew Tamis

Recently, energy-energy correlators (EECs) have garnered renewed interest for studying hadronic collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). EEC measurements within jets provide a clear scale…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-10 Hannah Bossi , Austin Baty , Yi Chen , Yu-Chen Chen , Gian-Michele Innocenti , Marcello Maggi , Chris McGinn , Yen-Jie Lee

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 present the analytic formula for the Energy-Energy Correlation (EEC) in electron-positron annihilation computed in perturbative QCD to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) in the back-to-back limit. In particular, we consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Markus A. Ebert , Bernhard Mistlberger , Gherardo Vita

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

Energy-energy-correlators (EEC's) are a promising observable to study the dynamics of jet evolution in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) through its imprint on angular scales in the energy flux of final-state particles. We carry out the first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-03 Zhong Yang , Yayun He , Ian Moult , Xin-Nian Wang

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

The energy-energy correlator (EEC) inside jets is a sensitive observable for studying jet modification in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). However, its interpretation in heavy-ion collisions remains challenging, requiring a consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-29 Zhong Yang , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , Xin-Nian Wang

Hard-scattered partons ejected from high-energy proton-proton collisions undergo parton shower and hadronization, resulting in collimated collections of particles that are clustered into jets. A substructure observable that highlights the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-25 The STAR Collaboration

Energy-energy correlators (EECs) provide a sensitive probe of both perturbative and nonperturbative dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Jet-medium interactions enhance particle multiplicity within the jet cone, which must be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Rushil Saraswat , Aditya Prasad Dash , Huan Zhong Huang , Gang Wang , Xin-Nian Wang , Zhong Yang

We compute medium corrections to the energy-energy correlator (EEC) for jets in electron-nucleus collisions at leading order in the QCD coupling and the interaction of the jet with the medium. We derive an analytical expression for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 Yu Fu , Berndt Müller , Chathuranga Sirimanna

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 present a study of medium-induced modifications to the energy-energy correlator (EEC) for jets in cold nuclear matter. For electron-nucleus collisions, at leading order in the QCD coupling and in the jet-medium interaction, we derive an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-13 Yu Fu , Berndt Müller , Chathuranga Sirimanna

We study particle correlations in high energy jets by comparing the measured energy-energy correlator (EEC) with that constructed from two individual energy flows with respect to the jet axis. This comparison demonstrates that genuine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 Wenbin Zhao , Volker Koch , Feng Yuan