The energy-energy correlation

These results should be considered preliminary, since the algorithm that produced them is not yet finalised. Nevertheless, the results have remained stable over several changes in the procedure, which is comforting.

The plots show the second-order coefficient of the perturbative expansion for the EEC, including a factor of \sin^2\chi which makes the curves finite. ie, the definition is exactly the same as in Clay and Ellis. The errors come from Monte Carlo statistics (there are no parameters, so that is the only error). The phase-space generation was optimised for the logarithmic regions - if it is useful to have smaller errors in the central region I can do so.

Using the subtraction method, as we do, fully integrated quantities have much smaller errors than differential quantities. Therefore the moments of B, defined by:
B[m,n] = \int_{-1}^{1} d\cos(\chi) B(\chi) \cos^m(\chi) \sin^n(\chi)
should give a very precise check that the three Monte Carlo programs give exactly the same B(\chi). (or not...?) Although we expect to disagree with the Clay-Ellis calculation, we include their numbers for comparison. The moments are tabulated separately for each group factor.

Mike Seymour