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The Collinear Limit of the Energy-Energy Correlator

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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 approaches zero, is of particular interest for describing the substructure of jets produced at hadron colliders as well as in $e^+e^-$ annihilation. We derive a factorization formula for the leading power asymptotic behavior in the collinear limit of a generic quantum field theory, which allows for the resummation of logarithmically enhanced terms to all orders by renormalization group evolution. The relevant anomalous dimensions are expressed in terms of the timelike data of the theory, in particular the moments of the timelike splitting functions, which are known to high perturbative orders. We relate the small angle and back-to-back limits to each other via the total cross section and an integral over intermediate angles. This relation provides us with the initial conditions for quark and gluon jet functions at order $\alpha_s^2$. In QCD and in $\mathcal{N}=1$ super-Yang-Mills theory, we then perform the resummation to next-to-next-to-leading logarithm, improving previous calculations by two perturbative orders. We highlight the important role played by the non-vanishing $\beta$ function in these theories, which while subdominant for Higgs decays to gluons, dominates the behavior of the EEC in the collinear limit for $e^+e^-$ annihilation, and in $\mathcal{N}=1$ super-Yang-Mills theory. In conformally invariant $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory, reciprocity between timelike and spacelike evolution can be used to express our factorization formula as a power law with exponent equal to the spacelike twist-two spin-three anomalous dimensions, thus providing a connection between timelike and spacelike approaches.

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Energy-Energy Correlator from the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro Amplitude

hep-th · 2026-01-08 · unverdicted · novelty 8.0

A precise mapping from the world-sheet integral of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude to the energy-energy correlator in strongly coupled N=4 SYM, with explicit flat-space and first curvature correction terms.

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.

Energy Correlators Resolving Proton Spin

hep-ph · 2025-09-22 · conditional · novelty 7.0

Spin-dependent energy correlators in polarized DIS provide a new way to probe the proton's spin structure, with resummed predictions in current and target fragmentation regions.

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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  • Energy-Energy Correlator from the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro Amplitude hep-th · 2026-01-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 17 · internal anchor

    A precise mapping from the world-sheet integral of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude to the energy-energy correlator in strongly coupled N=4 SYM, with explicit flat-space and first curvature correction terms.

  • Putting Jet Substructure on Track(s) hep-ph · 2026-06-30 · unverdicted · none · ref 75 · internal anchor

    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.

  • Projected Energy Correlators: Two-Loop Jet Functions and NNLL Resummation hep-ph · 2026-06-01 · unverdicted · none · ref 20 · internal anchor

    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.

  • Energy Correlators Resolving Proton Spin hep-ph · 2025-09-22 · conditional · none · ref 72 · internal anchor

    Spin-dependent energy correlators in polarized DIS provide a new way to probe the proton's spin structure, with resummed predictions in current and target fragmentation regions.

  • Properties and implications of the four-loop non-singlet splitting functions in QCD hep-ph · 2026-05-05 · unverdicted · none · ref 98

    Four-loop non-singlet QCD splitting functions are verified for consistency and used to finalize analytical forms for the gluon virtual anomalous dimension and N^4LL threshold resummation coefficients, revealing a new small-x logarithmic structure.

  • Dissecting Parton Showers with Multi-Point Energy Correlators hep-ph · 2026-07-08 · accept · none · ref 17 · 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.

  • Energy-Flow Moments for Elliptic Gluon Wigner Tomography hep-ph · 2026-06-30 · unverdicted · none · ref 22 · internal anchor

    An IRC-safe azimuthal energy-flow cos2φ moment in DIS dijets linearly projects the elliptic gluon Wigner harmonic after a calculable kinematic subtraction.

  • Multiplicity-dependent forward jet production in proton-nucleus collisions hep-ph · 2026-06-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 79 · internal anchor

    CGC plus SCET semi-inclusive jet functions yield a multiplicity-conditioned forward-jet factorization that reduces exactly to the known inclusive CGC jet cross section.

  • Hydrodynamics and Energy Correlators hep-ph · 2026-04-23 · unverdicted · none · ref 6

    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.

  • Operator structure of power corrections and anomalous scaling in energy correlators hep-ph · 2026-04-13 · unverdicted · none · ref 17

    Linear power corrections in energy correlators have a universal anomalous scaling because the dijet operator must be combined with a triple-jet component at one-loop order.

  • Factorization of the Energy-Energy Correlation in the two-jet limit in the massive case hep-ph · 2026-06-24 · unverdicted · none · ref 19 · internal anchor

    Authors introduce a partial two-jet event fraction for massive-quark EEC and an improved factorization scheme with χ-dependent coefficient function.