Abstract In high-luminosity collider physics, the vacuum is typically treated as a passive background where pileup (multiple collisions) acts as a source of additive stochastic noise. While statistical mechanics predicts that relative measurement uncertainty should decrease as the inverse square root of energy density \ ( (1 / N) \), we investigate whether the vacuum adheres strictly to this stochastic limit or exhibits emergent ordering under stress. We report a statistically significant anomaly in 383, 465 CMS Zero-Bias events (Run 2016H). We observe that as the local vacuum energy density \ ( () \) exceeds \ (3\) above the mean, the volatility of the Missing Transverse Energy \ ( (MET) \) ratio decreases by 5. 59% (\ (Z = 7. 83\), \ (P 10^-10\) ). Crucially, this reduction in volatility exceeds the prediction of standard Poisson statistics, suggesting the presence of an "Excess Rigidity" in the vacuum. This implies that High Information Density imposes a thermodynamic constraint, forcing the system into a lower-entropy state to minimize computational cost (Topological Locking).
Torben Wille (Thu,) studied this question.