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Renormalization group improved pQCD prediction for $\Upsilon(1S)$ leptonic decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-26 v3

Abstract

The complete next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order short-distance and bound-state QCD corrections to Υ(1S)\Upsilon(1S) leptonic decay rate Γ(Υ(1S)+)\Gamma(\Upsilon(1S)\to \ell^+\ell^-) has been finished by Beneke {\it et al.} \cite{Beneke:2014qea}. Based on those improvements, we present a renormalization group (RG) improved pQCD prediction for Γ(Υ(1S)+)\Gamma(\Upsilon(1S)\to \ell^+\ell^-) by applying the principle of maximum conformality (PMC). The PMC is based on RG-invariance and is designed to solve the pQCD renormalization scheme and scale ambiguities. After applying the PMC, all known-type of β\beta-terms at all orders, which are controlled by the RG-equation, are resummed to determine optimal renormalization scale for its strong running coupling at each order. We then achieve a more convergent pQCD series, a scheme- independent and more accurate pQCD prediction for Υ(1S)\Upsilon(1S) leptonic decay, i.e. ΓΥ(1S)e+ePMC=1.2700.187+0.137\Gamma_{\Upsilon(1S) \to e^+ e^-}|_{\rm PMC} = 1.270^{+0.137}_{-0.187} keV, where the uncertainty is the squared average of the mentioned pQCD errors. This RG-improved pQCD prediction agrees with the experimental measurement within errors.

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@article{arxiv.1501.04688,
  title  = {Renormalization group improved pQCD prediction for $\Upsilon(1S)$ leptonic decay},
  author = {Jian-Ming Shen and Xing-Gang Wu and Hong-Hao Ma and Huan-Yu Bi and Sheng-Quan Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.04688},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

11 pages, 4 figures. Numerical results and discussions improved, references updated, to be published in JHEP

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