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  "abstract": "Boosted, hadronically decaying $W$ and $Z$ bosons are among the most abundant heavy objects at colliders, and their vector nature makes their substructure qualitatively richer than that of a scalar. We initiate precision studies of the hadronic decays of boosted polarized vector bosons with energy correlators. In the narrow-width limit, the laboratory-frame two-point energy correlator is a sum of longitudinal and transverse decay spectra, each weighted by its polarized production rate and obtained by a closed-form boost kernel acting on rest-frame correlators. Combining polarized production density matrices, computed at NNLO in QCD for $pp\\to V+X$ and at leading order for $e^+e^-\\to W^+W^-$, with decay correlators that combine NNLO fixed order with NNLL collinear and N$^4$LL back-to-back resummation, we find for high-$p_T$ $W/Z$ production that polarization shifts the spectrum by $\\mathcal{O}(10\\%)$ relative to a naive unpolarized treatment. Even without any reconstruction, hadronic $W/Z$ decays stand out over the realistic QCD background of untagged jet samples as a localized angular bump. Our results open the door to using energy correlators for polarimetry of electroweak bosons through their hadronic decays, for standard-candle measurements of electroweak bosons inside jets, and in sharper searches for new resonances.",
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    {
      "name": "Anjie Gao"
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    {
      "name": "Kyle Lee"
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    {
      "name": "Xiaoyuan Zhang"
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  "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/1phxppf45n0qn.bib",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.38688",
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  "published": "2026-10-28",
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  "title": "Precision Studies of Boosted Polarized Vector Bosons with Energy Correlators",
  "title_text": "Precision Studies of Boosted Polarized Vector Bosons with Energy Correlators",
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  "updated_at": "2026-11-01T12:20:45Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/1phxppf45n0qn",
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