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Four-loop beta function and mass anomalous dimension in Dimensional Reduction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

Within the framework of QCD we compute renormalization constants for the strong coupling and the quark masses to four-loop order. We apply the DR-bar scheme and put special emphasis on the additional couplings which have to be taken into account. This concerns the epsilon-scalar--quark Yukawa coupling as well as the vertex containing four epsilon-scalars. For a supersymmetric Yang Mills theory, we find, in contrast to a previous claim, that the evanescent Yukawa coupling equals the strong coupling constant through three loops as required by supersymmetry.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0610206,
  title  = {Four-loop beta function and mass anomalous dimension in Dimensional Reduction},
  author = {R. V. Harlander and D. R. T. Jones and P. Kant and L. Mihaila and M. Steinhauser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0610206},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, fixed typo in Eq. (18)