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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 measured inside high-energy jets at hadron colliders have recently been demonstrated to provide a new window into both perturbative and non-perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. A number of the most interesting features of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-01 Max Jaarsma , Yibei Li , Ian Moult , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Hua Xing Zhu

Understanding the detailed structure of energy flow within jets, a field known as jet substructure, plays a central role in searches for new physics, and precision studies of QCD. Many applications of jet substructure require an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-19 Evan Craft , Kyle Lee , Bianka Meçaj , Ian Moult

In recent years, energy correlators have emerged as a powerful tool for studying jet substructure, with promising applications such as probing the hadronization transition, analyzing the quark-gluon plasma, and improving the precision of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-07 Ankita Budhraja , Hao Chen , Wouter J. Waalewijn

We report the first measurement of one- and two-point energy correlators within jets in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV, using the STAR detector at RHIC. These observables quantify the energy-weighted…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-21 The STAR Collaboration

Jet substructure observables serve as essential tools for probing the quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Their interpretation, however, is often complicated by edge effects, which arise when correlated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Carlota Andres , Jack Holguin , Benjamin Kimelman , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , Jussi Viinikainen , Zhong Yang

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

The first-ever measurement of energy correlators within inclusive jets produced in heavy-ion collisions, revealed by the CMS Collaboration, shows a clear enhancement at large angles relative to the proton-proton (p-p) baseline. However,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-28 Carlota Andres , Jack Holguin , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , Jussi Viinikainen

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

The top quark mass is a key parameter of the Standard Model, yet measuring it precisely at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is challenging. Inspired by the use of standard candles in cosmology, we propose a novel energy correlator-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-04 Jack Holguin , Ian Moult , Aditya Pathak , Massimiliano Procura , Robert Schöfbeck , Dennis Schwarz

Power counting is a systematic strategy for organizing collider observables and their associated theoretical calculations. In this paper, we use power counting to characterize a class of jet substructure observables called energy flow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-21 Pedro Cal , Jesse Thaler , Wouter J. Waalewijn

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

Energy Correlators measure the energy deposited in multiple detectors as a function of the angles between the detectors. In this paper, we analytically compute the three particle correlator in the collinear limit in QCD for quark and gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-10 Hao Chen , Ming-Xing Luo , Ian Moult , Tong-Zhi Yang , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Hua Xing Zhu

In this contribution to the Proceedings of the US Community Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2021) we review recent progress in the evaluation and application of the Energy-Energy Correlator (EEC) event shape observable in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-15 Duff Neill , Gherardo Vita , Ivan Vitev , Hua Xing Zhu

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

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

Extragalactic relativistic jets are engines able to carry out to large distances a huge amount of power, not only in the form of radiation, but especially in the form of kinetic energy of matter and fields. As such, they can be thought as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 G. Ghisellini

As the partons in a jet propagate through the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in a heavy-ion collision, they lose energy to, kick, and are kicked by the medium. The resulting modifications to the parton shower encode information about the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-11 Hannah Bossi , Arjun Srinivasan Kudinoor , Ian Moult , Daniel Pablos , Ananya Rai , Krishna Rajagopal

We explore the scale-dependence and correlations of jet substructure observables to improve upon existing techniques in the identification of highly Lorentz-boosted objects. Modified observables are designed to remove correlations from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-09 James Dolen , Philip Harris , Simone Marzani , Salvatore Rappoccio , Nhan Tran

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