Towards Order alpha_s^4 Accuracy in tau-decays
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-03-16 v1
Abstract
Recently computed terms of orders O(\alpha_s^4 n_f^2) in the perturbative series for the tau decay rate, and similar (new) strange quark mass corrections, are used to discuss the validity of various optimization schemes. The results are then employed to arrive at improved predictions for the complete terms order O(\alpha_s^4) and O(\alpha_s^5) in the massless limit as well as for terms due to the strange quark mass. Phenomenological implications are presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0212299,
title = {Towards Order alpha_s^4 Accuracy in tau-decays},
author = {P. A. Baikov and K. G. Chetyrkin and J. H. Kühn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0212299},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages, REVTeX4. The complete paper is also available via the www at http://www-ttp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/Preprints/