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Threshold Effects on the QCD Coupling $\alpha_{\overline{MS}}$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The matching condition which determines the effect of a heavy quark threshold on the running of the QCD coupling αMS\alpha_{\overline{MS}} is reviewed. The matching scale is arbitrary to some extent. However, this affects the value of αMS\alpha_{\overline{MS}} away from the threshold region only marginally.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9409390,
  title  = {Threshold Effects on the QCD Coupling $\alpha_{\overline{MS}}$},
  author = {W. Bernreuther},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9409390},
  year   = {2007}
}

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7 pages, PITHA 94/31