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Nucleon Energy Correlators as a Probe of Light-Quark Dipole Operators at the Electron-Ion Collider

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We propose nucleon energy correlators (NECs) as a novel framework to probe electroweak light-quark dipole operators in deep inelastic scattering with an unpolarized nucleon. These operators encode chirality-flipping interactions, whose effects are usually quadratically suppressed in unpolarized cross sections. We construct a chiral-odd quark NEC that accesses quark transverse spin via azimuthal angle asymmetries in the energy flow of the target fragmentation region. These asymmetries serve as clean and powerful observables, enabling linear constraints on the quark dipole couplings. Unlike existing methods, our approach requires neither polarized nucleon beams nor final-state hadron identification, relying instead on fully inclusive calorimetric measurements. This work establishes one of the first applications of energy correlator observables to new physics searches and opens a promising direction for precision studies of chirality-flipping effects at electron-ion colliders.

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Sivers Tomography from Charge and Angle Only

hep-ph · 2026-05-14 · conditional · novelty 8.0

The OPCC observable is IRC finite and factorizes into the Sivers distribution plus a perturbatively calculable charge-weighted jet function, eliminating dependence on non-perturbative fragmentation functions via charge conservation.

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  • Sivers Tomography from Charge and Angle Only hep-ph · 2026-05-14 · conditional · none · ref 65 · internal anchor

    The OPCC observable is IRC finite and factorizes into the Sivers distribution plus a perturbatively calculable charge-weighted jet function, eliminating dependence on non-perturbative fragmentation functions via charge conservation.

  • On Exclusive Coherent Production of Bosons in Electron-Proton Collisions hep-ph · 2026-04-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 32 · internal anchor

    A phenomenological 2-to-3 framework is constructed for exclusive boson electroproduction that matches flux-factorized predictions near Q^{2}=0 while capturing finite-Q^{2} effects at larger virtualities.

  • Braking protons at the EIC: from invisible meson decay to new physics searches hep-ph · 2025-12-31 · unverdicted · none · ref 25 · internal anchor

    The EIC can probe invisible pseudoscalar meson decays down to branching ratios of 10^{-8} and invisibly decaying ALPs with couplings up to 10^5 GeV for masses 0.1-2 GeV.