Ross Dempsey [NT/RBRC] Conformal Collider Bootstrap in N=4 SYM

Friday 13 Feb 2026, 11:00 → 13:00 US/Eastern

CFNS Library ( https://bnl.zoomgov.com/j/1614715193?pwd=WkwxODVWdzZzb29zQnZRVGp3VTBDQT09)

Energy correlators, which are a theoretical abstraction of the measurements made in collider experiments, are an excellent tool for probing quantum field theories and the subject of lots of current interest. I will discuss recent work on bootstrapping the energy-energy correlator (EEC) in N = 4 super-Yang-Mills. By combining superconformal symmetry, supersymmetric localization, integrability, and numerical conformal bootstrap methods, we are able to place two-sided bounds on the EEC in the planar limit. This allows us to non-perturbatively probe a transition from weakly-coupled behavior, in which the EEC is strongly peaked in the collinear and back-to-back limits, to strongly-coupled behavior, in which a holographic calculation shows that the EEC is uniform. I will also discuss some bounds on moments of the EEC for the theory with finite-rank gauge group SU(N).