N-point Energy correlators and how to measure them!
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Prof.Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli(Vanderbilt University)
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US/Eastern
Description
A major goal of high energy collider physics is to quantify the production and evolution of fundamental particles such as quarks and gluons. What we measure in our detectors are final state hadrons and photons/leptons that are produced from the metamorphosis of quarks/gluons into color-neutral objects. In the last few decades, theoretical frameworks and experimental measurements have advanced with greater detail towards furthering our understanding of Quantum Chromo-Dynamics at extremes environments such as the quark-gluon plasma with jet observables. Currently, we are amidst a resurgence of n-point energy correlators due to its ability to quantity different regimes of physics within a single observable. A direct analogy is the famous study of n-point feature space in the cosmic microwave background that allowed us to quantify the different modes of inhomogeneities within the photon flux in the early universe. In this talk, we focus on the recent measurements of the 2-point Energy-Energy correlator in both proton-proton and heavy ion collisions where we observed a remarkable quantification of potential transition between partonic and hadronic regimes that begs to be studied differentially. These measurements has now laid the foundation for extracting the microscopic scale dependent structure of the in heavy ion collisions and lastly, I will discuss some ongoing work to extend to higher dimensional correlators and phenomenological studies to understand them.