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Renormalon subtracted nonrelativistic QCD for heavy hadron systems

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-07-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We present a renormalon-subtracted formulation of potential nonrelativistic QCD (pNRQCD) for precision spectroscopy of heavy hadron systems, combining variational and Green's function Monte Carlo (VMC/GFMC) methods with NNLO static two- and three-body potentials. Minimal renormalon subtraction (MRS) systematically sums leading factorially growing terms, thereby stabilizing perturbative convergence and reducing renormalization-scale dependence. We tune charm and bottom quark masses to spin-averaged 1S1S quarkonium states and predict Ωccc\Omega_{ccc}, Ωccb\Omega_{ccb}, Ωcbb\Omega_{cbb}, and Ωbbb\Omega_{bbb} baryon masses, as well as QCD-stable baryons containing top quarks. NNLO MRS results undershoot lattice QCD by 125--175~MeV, with fractional differences decreasing as 1/mQ\sim 1/m_Q, consistent with neglected O(1/mQ)\mathcal{O}(1/m_Q) corrections. Applying these methods to unequal-mass fully-heavy tetraquarks, we determine the critical heavy-to-light mass ratio for binding and compute binding energies across the mass-ratio landscape.

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@article{arxiv.2607.08817,
  title  = {Renormalon subtracted nonrelativistic QCD for heavy hadron systems},
  author = {Benoît Assi and Andreas S. Kronfeld and Simon Vaiva and Michael L. Wagman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.08817},
  year   = {2026}
}

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17 pages, 8 figures