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Compelling evidence of renormalons in QCD from high order perturbative expansions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-06-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We compute the static self-energy of SU(3) gauge theory in four spacetime dimensions to order \alpha^{20} in the strong coupling constant. We employ lattice regularization to enable a numerical simulation within the framework of stochastic perturbation theory. We find perfect agreement with the factorial growth of high order coefficients predicted by the conjectured renormalon picture based on the operator product expansion.

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@article{arxiv.1111.3946,
  title  = {Compelling evidence of renormalons in QCD from high order perturbative expansions},
  author = {Clemens Bauer and Gunnar S. Bali and Antonio Pineda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.3946},
  year   = {2012}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures (v2: 1 figure added, 1 reference added, improved readability)