Anjie Gao, SLAC [HET Seminar] Imaging Boosted Boson Jets with Energy Correlators

Thursday 14 May 2026, 11:00 → 13:00 US/Eastern

Small Seminar Room

Jets initiated by the hadronic decays of heavy particles, such as the Higgs, Z and W bosons, can encode rich information about the Standard Model and possible new physics. However, this information is hidden inside complicated patterns of QCD radiation and hadronization. In this talk, I will discuss how energy correlators provide a simple and analytically controlled way to study jet substructure. The central idea is to compute energy correlators in the rest frame of a decaying heavy particle and then map them to the boosted frame. As a concrete example, I will present the two-point energy correlator for hadronic Higgs decays, where the boosted two-body decay appears as a characteristic angular peak and smaller-angle structures probe QCD effects such as the dead cone and confinement. I will then briefly discuss extensions of this framework to hadronic Z/W decays and to higher-point energy correlators.

 

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