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We present a new approach to determining the strong coupling $\alpha_s(Q)$, over the entire range of validity of perturbative QCD, for scales above $\Lambda_{\mathrm{QCD}}$ and up to the Planck scale $\sim1.22\cdot10^{19}$\,GeV, with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-16 Leonardo Di Giustino , Stanley J. Brodsky , Philip G. Ratcliffe , Sheng-Quan Wang , Xing-Gang Wu

In the present paper, we first give a detailed study on the pQCD corrections to the leading-twist part of BSR. Previous pQCD corrections to the leading-twist part derived under conventional scale-setting approach up to ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Qing Yu , Xing-Gang Wu , Hua Zhou , Xu-Dong Huang

The next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) pQCD predictions for both the decay width and the transition form factor in the $\eta_c\rightarrow \gamma\gamma$ process, based on nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD), deviate from precise experimental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-04 Sheng-Quan Wang , Zhu-Yu Ren , Jian-Ming Shen , Xing-Gang Wu , Leonardo Di Giustino , Stanley J. Brodsky

The next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) pQCD prediction for the $\gamma\gamma^* \to \eta_c$ form factor was evaluated in 2015 using nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD). A strong discrepancy between the NRQCD prediction and the BaBar measurements…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-01 Sheng-Quan Wang , Xing-Gang Wu , Wen-Long Sang , Stanley J. Brodsky

We reanalyze the perturbative QCD (pQCD) corrections to quarkonium QCD sum rules and extract the heavy quark masses $\overline{m}_{q}(\overline{m}_{q})$ ($q=c,b$). At present, the pQCD corrections to the correlation functions of two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-11 Qing Yu , Hua Zhou , Xing-Gang Wu

We introduce a generalization of the conventional renormalization schemes used in dimensional regularization, which illuminates the renormalization scheme and scale ambiguities of pQCD predictions, exposes the general pattern of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-20 Matin Mojaza , Stanley J. Brodsky , Xing-Gang Wu

We present a novel method for precisely determining the running QCD coupling constant $\alpha_s(Q^2)$ over a wide range of $Q^2$ from event shapes for electron-positron annihilation measured at a single annihilation energy $\sqrt{s}$. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-20 Sheng-Quan Wang , Stanley J. Brodsky , Xing-Gang Wu , Jian-Ming Shen , Leonardo Di Giustino

We show results for Thrust and C-parameter in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation to 3 jets obtained using the recently developed new method for eliminating the scale ambiguity and the scheme dependence in pQCD namely the Infinite-Order Scale-Setting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-12 Leonardo Di Giustino , Stanley J. Brodsky , Xing-Gang Wu , Sheng-Quan Wang

The energy-energy correlation (EEC) in electron-positron annihilation plays a crucial role in precision tests of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and measurements of the QCD coupling constant. In this paper, we provide a novel analysis for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Zhu-Yu Ren , Sheng-Quan Wang , Jian-Ming Shen , Xing-Gang Wu , Leonardo Di Giustino , Philip G. Ratcliffe , Stanley J. Brodsky

In the present paper, we make a detailed analysis for the QCD corrections to the electroweak $\rho$ parameter by applying the principle of maximum conformality (PMC). As a comparison, we show that under the conventional scale setting, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-04 Sheng-Quan Wang , Xing-Gang Wu , Jian-Ming Shen , Hua-Yong Han , Yang Ma

Conventionally, one adopts typical momentum flow of a physical observable as the renormalization scale for its perturbative QCD (pQCD) approximant. This simple treatment leads to renormalization scheme-and-scale ambiguities due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-05 Yang Ma , Xing-Gang Wu

In this paper, we compute the total and differential cross sections for $e^+e^- \to J/\psi+c+\bar{c}$ at the $B$ factories up to next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections within the framework of nonrelativistic QCD factorization theory. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-06 Xu-Dong Huang , Xing-Gang Wu , Xu-Chang Zheng , Bin Gong , Jian-Xiong Wang

The QCD coupling $\alpha_s$ is the most important parameter for achieving precise QCD predictions. By using the well measured effective coupling $\alpha^{g_1}_{s}(Q)$ defined from the Bjorken sum rules as a basis, we suggest a novel and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Qing Yu , Hua Zhou , Xu-Dong Huang , Jian-Ming Shen , Xing-Gang Wu

The principle of maximum conformality (PMC) provides a way to eliminate the conventional renormalization scale ambiguity in a systematic way. By applying the PMC scale setting, all non-conformal terms in perturbative series are summed into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-09 Qiong-Lian Zhang , Xing-Gang Wu , Xu-Chang Zheng , Sheng-Quan Wang , Hai-Bing Fu , Zhen-Yun Fang

In the paper, we study the properties of the top-quark $\overline{\rm MS}$ running mass computed from its on-shell mass by using both the four-loop $\overline{\rm MS}$-on-shell relation and the principle of maximum conformality (PMC)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-25 Xu-Dong Huang , Xing-Gang Wu , Jun Zeng , Qing Yu , Xu-Chang Zheng , Shuai Xu

The complete next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order short-distance and bound-state QCD corrections to $\Upsilon(1S)$ leptonic decay rate $\Gamma(\Upsilon(1S)\to \ell^+\ell^-)$ has been finished by Beneke {\it et al.} \cite{Beneke:2014qea}.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-26 Jian-Ming Shen , Xing-Gang Wu , Hong-Hao Ma , Huan-Yu Bi , Sheng-Quan Wang

The next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) pQCD correction to the inclusive decays of the heavy quarkonium $\eta_Q$ ($Q$ being $c$ or $b$) has been done in the literature within the framework of nonrelativistic QCD. One may observe that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-11 Qing Yu , Xing-Gang Wu , Jun Zeng , Xu-Dong Huang , Huai-Min Yu

The renormalization-scheme and scale dependence of the truncated QCD perturbative expansions is one of the main sources of theoretical error of the standard model predictions, especially at intermediate energies. Recently, a class of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Irinel Caprini

The momentum space subtraction (MOM) scheme is one of the most frequently used renormalization schemes in perturbative QCD (pQCD) theory. In the paper, we make a detailed discussion on the gauge dependence of the pQCD prediction under the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-04 Jun Zeng , Xing-Gang Wu , Xu-Chang Zheng , Jian-Ming Shen

We derive commensurate scale relations which relate perturbatively calculable QCD observables to each other, including the annihilation ratio, the heavy quark potential, tau decay, and radiative corrections to structure function sum rules.…

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