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First results on the running coupling in QCD with two massless flavours

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We report on the non-perturbative computation of the running coupling of two-flavour QCD in the Schr"odinger functional scheme. The corresponding Lambda-parameter, which describes the coupling strength at high energy, is related to a low energy scale which still remains to be connected to a hadronic ``experimentally'' observable quantity. We find the non-perturbative evolution of the coupling indispensable to avoid untolerable errors in the estimated Lambda-parameter.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0105003,
  title  = {First results on the running coupling in QCD with two massless flavours},
  author = {Achim Bode and Roberto Frezzotti and Bernd Gehrmann and Martin Hasenbusch and Jochen Heitger and Karl Jansen and Stefan Kurth and Juri Rolf and Hubert Simma and Stefan Sint and Rainer Sommer and Peter Weisz and Hartmut Wittig and Ulli Wolff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0105003},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

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