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Preliminary Calculation of $\alpha_s$ from Green Functions with Dynamical Quarks

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-08-16 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We present preliminary results on the computation of the QCD running coupling constant in the MOM~\widetilde{MOM} scheme and Landau gauge with two flavours of dynamical Wilson quarks. Gluon momenta range up to about 7 GeV (β=\beta = 5.6, 5.8 and 6.0) with a constant dynamical-quark mass. This range already allows to exhibit some evidence for a sizable 1/μ21/\mu^2 correction to the asymptotic behaviour, as in the quenched approximation, although a fit without power corrections is still possible with a reasonable χ2\chi^2. Following the conclusions of our quenched study, we take into account 1/μ21/\mu^2 correction to the asymptotic behaviour. We find ΛMSˉNf=2=264(27)MeV×[a1(5.6,0.1560)/2.19GeV]\Lambda_{\rm \bar{MS}}^{N_f=2} = 264(27) {\rm MeV} \times [{a^{-1}(5.6,0.1560)}/{2.19 {\rm GeV}}] , which leads to αs(MZ)=0.113(3)(4)\alpha_s(M_Z) = 0.113(3)(4). The latter result has to be taken as a preliminary indication rather than a real prediction in view of the systematic errors still to be controlled. Still, being two sigmas below the experimental result makes it very encouraging.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0107278,
  title  = {Preliminary Calculation of $\alpha_s$ from Green Functions with Dynamical Quarks},
  author = {Ph. Boucaud and J. P. Leroy and H. Moutarde and J. Micheli and O. Pène and J. Rodríguez-Quintero and C. Roiesnel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0107278},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pages, 3 figs., 2 tabs., revtex