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Nonperturbative Effects in Quarkonia Associated with Large Orders in Perturbation Theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We show that the perturbation series for quarkonia energies diverges at large orders. This results in a perturbative ambiguity in the energy that scales as e^(-1/a*Lambda) where a is the Bohr radius of quarkonium and Lambda is the QCD scale parameter. This ambiguity is associated with a nonperturbative contribution to the energy from distances of order 1/Lambda and greater. This contribution is separate from that of the gluon condensate.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9707525,
  title  = {Nonperturbative Effects in Quarkonia Associated with Large Orders in Perturbation Theory},
  author = {Martin C. Smith and T. Stelzer and S. Willenbrock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9707525},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures