Energy-energy correlators at strong coupling
- 1Queen Mary University of London
- 2Zhejiang University
- 3Yale University
Abstract
A bstract : We study energy-energy correlators (EEC) in planar 𝒩 N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong ’t Hooft coupling λ . We consider the EEC in states created by half-BPS operators of arbitrary dimension p , and determine the corresponding event-shape function up to order λ −3/2 from the worldsheet representation of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude with Kaluza-Klein external states. For p = 2 we compute the second curvature correction, which completes the EEC through order λ ⁻² ; the new contribution improves the agreement with recently derived non-perturbative bounds at intermediate coupling. We further develop a complementary method in which the strong-coupling expansion coefficients of the EEC are extracted directly from the Wilson coefficients of low-energy expansion of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude, and find the two approaches in perfect agreement.
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BibTeX
@article{jackson2026energyenergy,
title = {{Energy-energy correlators at strong coupling}},
author = {Max Jackson and Lecheng Ren and Bo Wang and Congkao Wen},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1007/jhep10(2026)236},
url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP10(2026)236},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Energy-energy correlators at strong coupling
AU - Max Jackson
AU - Lecheng Ren
AU - Bo Wang
AU - Congkao Wen
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/23
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
DO - 10.1007/jhep10(2026)236
UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP10(2026)236
AB - A bstract : We study energy-energy correlators (EEC) in planar 𝒩 N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong ’t Hooft coupling λ . We consider the EEC in states created by half-BPS operators of arbitrary dimension p , and determine the corresponding event-shape function up to order λ −3/2 from the worldsheet representation of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude with Kaluza-Klein external states. For p = 2 we compute the second curvature correction, which completes the EEC through order λ ⁻² ; the new contribution improves the agreement with recently derived non-perturbative bounds at intermediate coupling. We further develop a complementary method in which the strong-coupling expansion coefficients of the EEC are extracted directly from the Wilson coefficients of low-energy expansion of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude, and find the two approaches in perfect agreement.
SN - 1029-8479
ER -