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Energy Correlators Taking Charge

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The confining transition from asymptotically free partons to hadrons remains one of the most mysterious aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics. With the wealth of high quality jet substructure data we can hope to gain new experimental insights into the details of its dynamics. Jet substructure has traditionally focused on correlations, $\langle \mathcal{E}(n_1) \mathcal{E}(n_2) \cdots \mathcal{E}(n_k) \rangle$, in the energy flux of hadrons. However, significantly more information about the confinement transition is encoded in how energy is correlated between hadrons with different quantum numbers, for example electric charge. In this Letter we develop the field theoretic formalism to compute general correlations, $\langle \mathcal{E}_{R_1}(n_1) \mathcal{E}_{R_2}(n_2) \cdots\mathcal{E}_{R_k}(n_k) \rangle$, between the energy flux carried by hadrons with quantum numbers $R_i$, by introducing new universal non-perturbative functions, which we term joint track functions. Using this formalism we show that the strong interactions introduce enhanced small angle correlations between opposite-sign hadrons, relative to like-sign hadrons, identifiable as an enhanced scaling of $\langle \mathcal{E}_+(n_1) \mathcal{E}_-(n_2) \rangle$ relative to $\langle \mathcal{E}_+(n_1) \mathcal{E}_+(n_2) \rangle$. We are also able to compute the scaling of a $C$-odd three-point function, $\langle \mathcal{E}_\mathcal{Q}(n_1) \mathcal{E}_\mathcal{Q}(n_2) \mathcal{E}_\mathcal{Q}(n_3) \rangle$. Our results greatly extend the class of systematically computable jet substructure observables, pushing perturbation theory deeper into the parton to hadron transition, and providing new observables to understand the dynamics of confinement.

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Putting Jet Substructure on Track(s)

hep-ph · 2026-06-30 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

First complete NLL calculations of projected energy correlators (up to 4-point) on tracks via factorization theorems and RG evolution, extending prior full-jet results.

Probing jet evolution with charged energy correlators in small systems

nucl-ex · 2026-06-16 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Charged energy correlators measured in jets at the LHC show like-sign pairs sensitive to parton shower models and unlike-sign pairs sensitive to hadronization, with charge-independent cold nuclear matter effects in p-Pb collisions.

Accessing nucleon transversity with one-point energy correlators

hep-ph · 2025-09-19 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

The paper proposes that one-point energy correlators in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions access the nucleon's transversity distribution through a single-spin asymmetry with sin(φ_s - φ_n) angular dependence over a wider kinematic range than traditional transverse momentum measurements

Hydrodynamics and Energy Correlators

hep-ph · 2026-04-23 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Energy-energy correlators in heavy-ion collisions exhibit classical hydrodynamic scaling from collective flow at large angles within the small-angle regime, collective modes at smaller angles, and light-ray OPE at even smaller angles.

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  • Putting Jet Substructure on Track(s) hep-ph · 2026-06-30 · unverdicted · none · ref 65

    First complete NLL calculations of projected energy correlators (up to 4-point) on tracks via factorization theorems and RG evolution, extending prior full-jet results.

  • Probing jet evolution with charged energy correlators in small systems nucl-ex · 2026-06-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 8

    Charged energy correlators measured in jets at the LHC show like-sign pairs sensitive to parton shower models and unlike-sign pairs sensitive to hadronization, with charge-independent cold nuclear matter effects in p-Pb collisions.

  • Projected Energy Correlators: Two-Loop Jet Functions and NNLL Resummation hep-ph · 2026-06-01 · unverdicted · none · ref 103

    Computes two-loop jet functions for N=4,5,6 projected energy correlators enabling NNLL collinear resummation matched to NLO in e+e- and Higgs-to-gluons processes, with non-perturbative corrections from two universal soft matrix elements.

  • Accessing nucleon transversity with one-point energy correlators hep-ph · 2025-09-19 · unverdicted · none · ref 98

    The paper proposes that one-point energy correlators in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions access the nucleon's transversity distribution through a single-spin asymmetry with sin(φ_s - φ_n) angular dependence over a wider kinematic range than traditional transverse momentum measurements

  • Nucleon Energy Correlators as a Probe of Light-Quark Dipole Operators at the Electron-Ion Collider hep-ph · 2025-08-11 · unverdicted · none · ref 56

    Nucleon energy correlators access linear effects from light-quark dipole operators via azimuthal asymmetries in the target fragmentation region at the EIC.

  • Dissecting Parton Showers with Multi-Point Energy Correlators hep-ph · 2026-07-08 · accept · none · ref 28 · internal anchor

    Projections of four-point energy correlators cleanly separate spin from kinematic azimuthal correlations inside jets; spin effects are subdominant in accessible LHC kinematics.

  • Mapping jet substructure in heavy-ion collisions with track functions hep-ph · 2026-06-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 45

    Track functions exhibit model-dependent modifications to higher moments in heavy-ion jets, with RG flows qualitatively preserved, enabling discrimination between jet quenching pictures.

  • Hydrodynamics and Energy Correlators hep-ph · 2026-04-23 · unverdicted · none · ref 20

    Energy-energy correlators in heavy-ion collisions exhibit classical hydrodynamic scaling from collective flow at large angles within the small-angle regime, collective modes at smaller angles, and light-ray OPE at even smaller angles.