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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 future electron-ion collider (EIC) will produce the first-ever high energy collisions between electrons and a wide range of nuclei, opening a new era in the study of cold nuclear matter. Quarks and gluons produced in these collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-03 Kyle Devereaux , Wenqing Fan , Weiyao Ke , Kyle Lee , Ian Moult

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

We have conducted the first simultaneous global fit of the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$ and the Collins-Soper (CS) kernel using the energy-energy correlators (EEC) of $e^{+} e^{-}$ collisions in the back-to-back limit. This analysis,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-27 Zhong-Bo Kang , Jani Penttala , Congyue Zhang

We investigate the partonic origin of the proton longitudinal spin using spin-dependent energy correlators measured in lepton-hadron collisions with longitudinally polarized proton beams. These observables encode angular correlations in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Jun Gao , Hai Tao Li , Yu Jiao Zhu

Dynamics of high energy scattering in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) are primarily probed through detector energy flow correlations. One important example is the Energy-Energy Correlator (EEC), whose back-to-back limit probes correlations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 Hao Chen , Xinan Zhou , Hua Xing Zhu

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

The $N$-point energy correlator measures the energy flux through $N$ detectors. We present a general framework that characterizes its full angular dependence in a series of \textit{spinning energy correlators}. These spinning correlators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-22 Marc Riembau , Minho Son

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

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

In this Letter, we study the collinear limit of the Energy-Energy Correlator (EEC) in single-inclusive jet production in proton-proton ($pp$) and proton-nucleus ($pA$) collisions. We introduce a non-perturbative model that allows us to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-30 João Barata , Zhong-Bo Kang , Xoán Mayo López , Jani Penttala

The theoretical description of observables at collider experiments relies on factorization theorems separating perturbative dynamics from universal non-perturbative matrix elements. Despite significant recent progress in extending these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-04 Kyle Lee , Ian Moult

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

We investigate the transverse energy-energy correlators (TEEC) in the small-$x$ regime at the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Focusing on the back-to-back production of electron-hadron pairs in both $ep$ and $eA$ collisions, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-06 Zhong-Bo Kang , Jani Penttala , Fanyi Zhao , Yiyu Zhou

We study the QCD scaling behavior of the small-angle Energy-Energy Correlator (EEC), focusing on the transition between its perturbative pre-confinement and non-perturbative post-confinement regimes. Applying the light-ray Operator Product…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-23 Cyuan-Han Chang , Hao Chen , Xiaohui Liu , David Simmons-Duffin , Feng Yuan , 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

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

Event shape observables have been widely used for precision QCD studies at various lepton and hadron colliders. We present the most accurate calculation of the transverse-energy-energy correlation event shape variable in deep-inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Hai Tao Li , Ivan Vitev , Yu Jiao Zhu

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

We introduce the concept of the nucleon energy correlators, a set of novel objects that encode the microscopic details of a nucleon, such as the parton angular distribution in a nucleon, the collinear splitting to all orders, as well as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-08 Xiaohui Liu , Hua Xing Zhu