Fermilab Theory Seminars

Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC

by Kyle Lee (MIT)

US/Central
Curia II

Curia II

Description

Reframing jet substructures as multipoint correlation functions of energy flow operators provides new methods to explore the dynamics of QCD jets. In my presentation, I will illustrate how energy correlators can be effectively studied within the complex environment of the LHC, demonstrating their universal scaling behavior expected from the light-ray OPE. Crucially, I will show how this behavior is displayed by actual collider data.

Moreover, the study of energy correlators in jets opens up several intriguing phenomenological applications for imaging the intrinsic and emergent scales of QCD. I will discuss a variety of these applications, including the imaging of heavy quark dynamics crucial for probing Higgs properties, the measurement of top quark mass to understand the stability of our universe, the exploration of the strongly interacting phase of matter, and the examination of the hadronization mechanism.