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Infrared renormalon in $SU(N)$ QCD(adj.) on $\mathbb{R}^3\times S^1$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-02-12 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the infrared renormalon in the gluon condensate in the SU(N)SU(N) gauge theory with nWn_W-flavor adjoint Weyl fermions (QCD(adj.)) on~R3×S1\mathbb{R}^3\times S^1 with the ZN\mathbb{Z}_N twisted boundary conditions. We rely on the so-called large-β0\beta_0 approximation as a conventional tool to analyze the renormalon, in which only Feynman diagrams that dominate in the large-nWn_W limit are considered while the coefficient of the vacuum polarization is set by hand to the one-loop beta function~β0=11/32nW/3\beta_0=11/3-2n_W/3. In the large~NN limit within the large-β0\beta_0 approximation, the W-boson, which acquires the twisted Kaluza--Klein momentum, produces the renormalon ambiguity corresponding to the Borel singularity at~u=2u=2. This provides an example that the system in the compactified space~R3×S1\mathbb{R}^3\times S^1 possesses the renormalon ambiguity identical to that in the uncompactified space~R4\mathbb{R}^4. We also discuss the subtle issue that the location of the Borel singularity can change depending on the order of two necessary operations.

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@article{arxiv.1909.05489,
  title  = {Infrared renormalon in $SU(N)$ QCD(adj.) on $\mathbb{R}^3\times S^1$},
  author = {Masahiro Ashie and Okuto Morikawa and Hiroshi Suzuki and Hiromasa Takaura and Kengo Takeuchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.05489},
  year   = {2020}
}

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24 pages, 1 figure, the final version to appear in PTEP