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Estimating the strong coupling from $\tau$ decay using accelerating series convergence

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-01-31 v1

Abstract

We apply the Euler transformation to accelerate the convergence of the QCD perturbative series with the aim to determine the strong coupling αs\alpha_s in terms of the total τ\tau-decay rate rτr_\tau. The variation of the result with the order of the QCD perturbation theory is small and comparable with the uncertainties of rτr_\tau. We also present an estimate of a range of the yet unknown 5th and 6th order coefficients k5k_5 and k6k_6 of the Adler function.

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@article{arxiv.2401.17131,
  title  = {Estimating the strong coupling from $\tau$ decay using accelerating series convergence},
  author = {K. Schilcher and C. Sebu and H. Spiesberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.17131},
  year   = {2024}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures

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