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Perturbative QCD in acceptable schemes with holomorphic coupling

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-11 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Perturbative QCD in mass independent schemes leads in general to running coupling a(Q2)a(Q^2) which is nonanalytic (nonholomorphic) in the regime of low spacelike momenta Q21 GeV2|Q^2| \lesssim 1 \ {\rm GeV}^2. Such (Landau) singularities are inconvenient in the following sense: evaluations of spacelike physical quantities D(Q2){\cal D}(Q^2) with such a running coupling a(κQ2)a(\kappa Q^2) (κ1\kappa \sim 1) give us expressions with the same kind of singularities, while the general principles of local quantum field theory require that the mentioned physical quantities have no such singularities. In a previous work, certain classes of perturbative mass independent beta functions were found such that the resulting coupling was holomorphic. However, the resulting perturbation series showed explosive increase of coefficients already at N4LO{\rm N}^4{\rm LO} order, as a consequence of the requirement that the theory reproduce the correct value of the τ\tau lepton semihadronic strangeless decay ratio rτr_{\tau}. In this work we successfully extend the construction to specific classes of perturbative beta functions such that the perturbation series do not show explosive increase of coefficients, the perturbative coupling is holomorphic, and the correct value of rτr_{\tau} is reproduced. In addition, we extract, with Borel sum rule analysis of the V+A channel of the semihadronic strangeless decays of τ\tau lepton, reasonable values of the corresponding D=4 and D=6 condensates.

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@article{arxiv.1405.5815,
  title  = {Perturbative QCD in acceptable schemes with holomorphic coupling},
  author = {Carlos Contreras and Gorazd Cvetic and Reinhart Kogerler and Pawel Kroger and Oscar Orellana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5815},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

v3: 27 pages; 12 figures; includes new Sec.V - sum rule analysis for semihadronic decays of tau lepton in a proposed QCD scheme; new Refs.: [114,115,118-132]; to appear in Int.J.Mod.Phys.A

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