Renormalon subtracted nonrelativistic QCD for heavy hadron systems
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 quarkonium states and predict , , , and 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 , consistent with neglected 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