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Starting from Wilson's action, we calculate strong coupling series for the Polyakov loop susceptibility in lattice gauge theories for various small N_\tau in the thermodynamic limit. Analysing the series with Pad\'e approximants, we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-05-14 Jens Langelage , Owe Philipsen

We present a new determination of the strong coupling constant from lattice QCD simulations. We use four different short-distance quantities to obtain the coupling, three different (infrared) meson splittings to tune the simulation…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-24 C. T. H. Davies , K. Hornbostel , G. P. Lepage , P. McCallum , J. Shigemitsu , J. Sloan

We present a determination of the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s(m_Z)$ based on the NNPDF3.1 determination of parton distributions, which for the first time includes constraints from jet production, top-quark pair differential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-10 Richard D. Ball , Stefano Carrazza , Luigi Del Debbio , Stefano Forte , Zahari Kassabov , Juan Rojo , Emma Slade , Maria Ubiali

We investigate the deconfining phase transition in SU(3) pure gauge theory and in full QCD with two flavors of staggered fermions by means of a gauge invariant thermal partition functional. In the pure gauge case our finite size scaling…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Cea , L. Cosmai , M. D'Elia

The present knowledge on the strong coupling is briefly summarized. The most precise determinations of alpha_s, at different energies, are reviewed and compared at the Z mass scale, using the predicted QCD running. The impressive agreement…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-12 Antonio Pich

We report on the determination of the gradient flow scales in $N_f=2+1$ QCD using highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) ensembles generated by the HotQCD Collaboration for bare gauge couplings ranging from $\beta = 6.423$ to $8.400$. Using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-09 Rasmus Larsen , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Hai-Tao Shu , Johannes Heinrich Weber

We extend our recent analytic study of the strong coupling $\alpha_{\rm eff}$ in the nonperturbative and near-perturbative regimes~\cite{deTeramond:2024ikl} by imposing rigorous renormalization-group results from asymptotically free gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-27 Guy F. de Teramond , Arpon Paul , Hans Gunter Dosch , Stanley J. Brodsky , Alexandre Deur , Tianbo Liu , Raza Sabbir Sufian

We present an extensive analysis of Delta F=2 observables and of B -> X_s gamma in the framework of a specific Maximally Gauged Flavour (MGF) model of Grinstein et al. including all relevant contributions, in particular tree-level heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Andrzej J. Buras , Maria Valentina Carlucci , Luca Merlo , Emmanuel Stamou

Using the most recent release of the ALEPH $\tau$ decay data, we present a very detailed phenomenological update of the $\alpha_s(m_\tau^2)$ determination. We have exploited the sensitivity to the strong coupling in many different ways,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Antonio Pich , Antonio Rodríguez Sánchez

When relating the strong coupling $\alpha_s$, measured at the scale of the $Z$ boson mass, to its numerical value at some higher energy, for example the scale of Grand Unification, it is important to include higher order corrections both in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 R. Harlander , L. Mihaila , M. Steinhauser

The open-flavor strong decays are studied based on the interaction of potential quark model. The decay process is related to the s-channel contribution of the same scalar confinment and one-gluon-exchange(OGE) interaction in the quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Bao-Fei Li , Wei-Zhen Deng , Xiao-Lin Chen

We have measured the running coupling constant of SU(3) gauge theory coupled to Nf=2 flavors of symmetric representation fermions, using the Schrodinger functional scheme. Our lattice action is defined with hypercubic smeared links which,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-21 Thomas DeGrand , Yigal Shamir , Benjamin Svetitsky

The phase structure of QCD-like gauge theories with fermions in various representations is an interesting but generally analytically intractable problem. One way to ensure weak coupling is to define the theory in a small finite volume, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Timothy J. Hollowood , Joyce C. Myers

If QCD is renormalized by minimal subtraction (MS), at higher orders, the strong coupling constant alpha_s and the quark masses m_q exhibit discontinuities at the flavour thresholds, which are controlled by so-called decoupling constants,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. A. Kniehl

We test here our recently introduced new lattice method for the $\beta$-function defined over infinite Euclidean space-time in the continuum from scale changes generated by infinitesimal or finite steps of the renormalized gauge coupling on…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-01-18 Chik Him Wong , Szabolcs Borsanyi , Zoltan Fodor , Kieran Holland , Julius Kuti

Large-scale structure (LSS) surveys will increasingly provide stringent constraints on our cosmological models. Recently, the density-marked correlation function (MCF) has been introduced, offering an easily computable density-correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 L. M. Lai , J. C. Ding , X. L. Luo , Y. Z. Yang , Z. H. Wang , K. S. Liu , G. F. Liu , X. Wang , Y. Zheng , Z. Y. Li , L. Zhang , X. D. Li

Phase structure and phase transitions in dense QCD are studied using the Schwinger-Dyson (SD) method in the improved ladder approximation. We construct the Cornwall-Jackiw-Tomboulis (CJT) effective potentials at finite temperature for two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Hiroaki Abuki

The electroweak gauge symmetry is allowed to be spontaneously broken by the strongly interacting vector-like gauge dynamics. When the gauge coupling of a theory runs slowly in a wide range of energy scale, the theory is a candidate for…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-03-18 N. Yamada , M. Hayakawa , K. -I. Ishikawa , Y. Osaki , S. Takeda , S. Uno

In this thesis, I use the strong coupling expansion to investigate the multiflavor lattice Schwinger models in the hamiltonian formalism using staggered fermions. In particular, I am interested in analysing the mapping of these gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Federico Berruto

We calculate the $U(1)$ continuum gauge coupling using the values of action parameters at the multiple point in the phase diagram of a lattice gauge theory. The multiple point is where a maximum number of phases convene. We obtain for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 D. L. Bennett , H. B. Nielsen