8–10 Jul 2026
University of Manchester
Europe/London timezone

Event Isotropy in perturbative QCD

9 Jul 2026, 11:00
25m
Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre, Schuster Building (University of Manchester)

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre, Schuster Building

University of Manchester

Speaker

Prof. Simone Marzani (Università di Genova and INFN Sezione di Genova)

Description

It has recently been proposed that collider events can be equipped with a metric, the Energy Mover’s Distance (EMD), which allows one to rephrase multiple aspects of jet physics in a geometric language. Further, the EMD can be exploited to define new observables that measure the distance between a given event and an idealised one. For instance, event isotropy quantifies the resemblance of an event to a uniform energy distribution. We present the first field-theoretical description of the event isotropy distribution in electron-positron collisions. Our calculation includes the all-order resummation of soft and collinear logarithmic contributions at next-to-leading log accuracy, matched to next-to-leading order corrections at fixed order.

Authors

Daniele Atzori (LPTHE) Gregory Soyez (IPhT, CEA Saclay) Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Jussieu) Prof. Simone Marzani (Università di Genova and INFN Sezione di Genova)

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