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On the Self-Consistency of Scale-Setting Methods

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We discuss various self-consistency conditions for scale-setting methods. We show that the widely used Principle of Minimum Sensitivity (PMS) is disfavored since it does not satisfy these requirements.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9211308,
  title  = {On the Self-Consistency of Scale-Setting Methods},
  author = {Stanley J. Brodsky and Hung Jung Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9211308},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

11 pages. SLAC-PUB-6000 (DOE/ER/40322-186). Latex file

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