Dissecting Jet Modification in the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Multipoint Energy Correlators
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- 1CERN
- 2Yale University
- 3IKERBASQUE
- 4LIP
- 5University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
- 6Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa
- 7Universidad de Granada
Abstract
Energy correlators have recently attracted significant attention in the study of heavy ion collisions due to their potential to robustly connect experimental measurements with an underlying quantum field theoretic description. While theoretical studies have so far primarily focused on the simplest two-point correlator, mapping out the dynamics of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) will require developing a theoretical understanding of multipoint energy correlators. In this Letter, we present a systematic theoretical study of multipoint energy correlators for jets fragmenting in a dense quark-gluon plasma, accounting for both the medium's perturbative modification to the jet and its hydrodynamical backreaction. We consider both the scaling behavior of projected correlators, as well as the shape dependent three-point correlator, highlighting how both provide insight into interactions with the QGP. We discuss the parametric dependence of modifications on the medium scales, opening new opportunities to experimentally separate jet modifications from the medium response. Our results open the door to a systematic exploration of multipoint energy correlators in heavy ion collisions.
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BibTeX
@article{anonymous2026dissecting,
title = {{Dissecting Jet Modification in the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Multipoint Energy Correlators}},
author = {Anonymous and Ian Moult and Andrey V. Sadofyev and João M. Silva},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
year = {2026},
month = jun,
doi = {10.1103/9jzc-7jcv},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1103/9jzc-7jcv},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Dissecting Jet Modification in the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Multipoint Energy Correlators
AU - Anonymous
AU - Ian Moult
AU - Andrey V. Sadofyev
AU - João M. Silva
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/06/23
JO - Physical Review Letters
DO - 10.1103/9jzc-7jcv
UR - https://doi.org/10.1103/9jzc-7jcv
AB - Energy correlators have recently attracted significant attention in the study of heavy ion collisions due to their potential to robustly connect experimental measurements with an underlying quantum field theoretic description. While theoretical studies have so far primarily focused on the simplest two-point correlator, mapping out the dynamics of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) will require developing a theoretical understanding of multipoint energy correlators. In this Letter, we present a systematic theoretical study of multipoint energy correlators for jets fragmenting in a dense quark-gluon plasma, accounting for both the medium's perturbative modification to the jet and its hydrodynamical backreaction. We consider both the scaling behavior of projected correlators, as well as the shape dependent three-point correlator, highlighting how both provide insight into interactions with the QGP. We discuss the parametric dependence of modifications on the medium scales, opening new opportunities to experimentally separate jet modifications from the medium response. Our results open the door to a systematic exploration of multipoint energy correlators in heavy ion collisions.
SN - 0031-9007
SN - 1079-7114
SN - 1092-0145
ER -