Quark-mass effects in gradient-flow observables through next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2025-12-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We provide results for the vacuum expectation values of the flowed action density, the quark condensate, and the quark kinetic operator in the gradient-flow formalism. We work in -flavor QCD, keeping the heaviest quark massive and all others massless. The vacuum expectation values of these operators are calculated numerically through next-to-next-to-leading order QCD, providing important input for the extraction of fundamental QCD parameters from lattice calculations. While the focus is on charm- and bottom-quark mass effects, we provide the results in a form that is independent of the specific quark mass.
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@article{arxiv.2512.19613,
title = {Quark-mass effects in gradient-flow observables through next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD},
author = {Robert V. Harlander and Robert H. Mason},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.19613},
year = {2025}
}
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32 pages, 16 Figures