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Four-loop moments of the heavy quark vacuum polarization function in perturbative QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-01-07 v2

Abstract

New results at four-loop order in perturbative QCD for the first two Taylor coefficients of the heavy quark vacuum polarization function are presented. They can be used to perform a precise determination of the charm- and bottom-quark mass. Implications for the value of the quark masses are briefly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0604234,
  title  = {Four-loop moments of the heavy quark vacuum polarization function in perturbative QCD},
  author = {K. G. Chetyrkin and J. H. Kühn and C. Sturm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0604234},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 13 figures; final version accepted for publication in the journal