Seminar series
Date
Tue, 18 Nov 2025
13:00
Location
L2
Speaker
Robin Karlsson
Organisation
Oxford

Energy correlations characterise the energy flux through detectors at infinity produced in a collision event. In CFTs, these detectors are examples of light-ray operators and, in particular, the stress tensor operator integrated over future null infinity. In N=4 SU(N_c) SYM, we combine perturbation theory, holography, integrability, supersymmetric localisation, and modern conformal bootstrap techniques to obtain predictions for such a collider experiment at finite coupling, both at finite number of colours, and in the planar limit. In QCD, the coupling runs with the angle between detectors, and there is a transition from perturbative to non-perturbative QCD. In N=4 SYM, a similar transition occurs when the coupling is varied, which we explore quantitatively. I will describe the physics underlying this observable and some of the methods used, particularly in regimes with analytical control.


 

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