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It has been observed that conventional renormalization scheme and scale ambiguities for the pQCD predictions can be eliminated by using the principle of maximum conformality (PMC). However, being the intrinsic nature of any perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-18 Qing Yu , Hua Zhou , Jiang Yan , Xu-Dong Huang , Xing-Gang Wu

In the paper, we analyze the $\eta_c$ decays into light hadrons at the next-to-leading order QCD corrections by applying the principle of maximum conformality (PMC). The relativistic correction at the ${\cal{O}}(\alpha_s v^2)$-order level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-30 Bo-Lun Du , Xing-Gang Wu , Jun Zeng , Shi Bu , Jian-Ming Shen

Measuring the Doppler broadening of the positron annihilation radiation or the angular correlation between the two annihilation gamma quanta reflects the momentum distribution of electrons seen by positrons in the material.Vacancy-type…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Makkonen , M. Hakala , M. J. Puska

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

We compute the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the thrust distribution in electron-positron annihilation. The corrections turn out to be sizable, enhancing the previously known next-to-leading order prediction by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Gehrmann-De Ridder , T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , G. Heinrich

In the context of the dispersive model for non-perturbative corrections, we extend the leading renormalon subtraction to NNLO for the thrust distribution in $e^+e^-$ annihilation. Within this framework, using a NNLL+NNLO perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Thomas Gehrmann , Gionata Luisoni , Pier Francesco Monni

We present a detailed study on the properties of the free energy density at the high temperature by applying the principle of maximum conformality (PMC) scale-setting method within the effective field theory. The PMC utilizes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-31 Shi Bu , Xing-Gang Wu , Jian-Ming Shen , Jun Zeng

The Principle of Maximal Conformality (PMC) provides a rigorous method for eliminating renormalization scheme-and-scale ambiguities for perturbative QCD predictions. The PMC uses the renormalization group equation to fix the $\beta$-pattern…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-15 Jian-Ming Shen , Xing-Gang Wu , Bo-Lun Du , Stanley J. Brodsky

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 setting of the renormalization scale ($\mu_r$) in the perturbative QCD (pQCD) is one of the crucial problems for achieving precise fixed-order pQCD predictions. The conventional prescription is to take its value as the typical momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-05 Sheng-Quan Wang , Stanley J. Brodsky , Xing-Gang Wu , Jian-Ming Shen , Leonardo Di Giustino

In this paper, we explore the properties of the Ellis-Jaffe Sum Rule (EJSR) by employing the Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) approach to address its perturbative part up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order ($\rm N^{3}LO$) QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-02 Hua Zhou , Qing Yu , Xing-Gang Wu

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 {\it Principle of Maximum Conformality} (PMC), which generalizes the conventional Gell-Mann-Low method for scale-setting in perturbative QED to non-Abelian QCD, provides a rigorous method for achieving unambiguous scheme-independent,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-21 Xu-Dong Huang , Jiang Yan , Hong-Hao Ma , Leonardo Di Giustino , Jian-Ming Shen , Xing-Gang Wu , Stanley J. Brodsky

The conventional approach to fixed-order perturbative QCD predictions is based on an arbitrary choice of the renormalization scale, together with an arbitrary range. This {\it ad hoc} assignment of the renormalization scale causes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-19 Xing-Gang Wu , Jian-Ming Shen , Bo-Lun Du , Xu-Dong Huang , Sheng-Quan Wang , Stanley J. Brodsky

The Principle of Maximal Conformality (PMC) provides a systematic way to set the renormalization scales order-by-order for any perturbative QCD process. The resulting predictions are independent of the choice of renormalization scheme, a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-17 Jian-Ming Shen , Xing-Gang Wu , Yang Ma , Stanley J. Brodsky

We re-evaluate the non-perturbative contribution to the thrust distribution in $e^+e^-\to$ hadrons, in the light of the latest experimental data and the recent NNLO perturbative calculation of this quantity. By extending the calculation to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-22 R. A. Davison , B. R. Webber

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

Heavy fermion pair production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation is a fundamental process in hadron physics and is of considerable interest for various phenomena. In this paper, we will apply the Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) to provide a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Sheng-Quan Wang , Stanley J. Brodsky , Xing-Gang Wu , Leonardo Di Giustino , Jian-Ming Shen

In the paper, we present QCD predictions for $\eta_{c} + \gamma$ production at an electron-position collider up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) accuracy without renormalization scale ambiguities. The NNLO total cross-section for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Huai-Min Yu , Wen-Long Sang , Xu-Dong Huang , Jun Zeng , Xing-Gang Wu , Stanley J. Brodsky

Electron-positron momentum distributions measured by the coincidence Doppler broadening method can be used in the chemical analysis of the annihilation environment, typically a vacancy-impurity complex in a solid. In the present work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Folegati , I. Makkonen , R. Ferragut , M. J. Puska