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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

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

In this paper we show that the apparent failure of QCD lattice perturbation theory to account for Monte Carlo measurements of perturbative quantities results from choosing the bare lattice coupling constant as the expansion parameter. Using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 G. P. Lepage , P. B. Mackenzie

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

Under the conventional scale setting, the renormalization scale uncertainty usually constitutes a systematic error for a fixed-order perturbative QCD estimation. The recently suggested principle of maximum conformality (PMC) provides a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-04 Sheng-Quan Wang , Xing-Gang Wu , Xu-Chang Zheng , Jian-Ming Shen , Qiong-Lian Zhang

We present a general procedure for incorporating higher-order information into the scale-setting prescription of Brodsky, Lepage and Mackenzie. In particular, we show how to apply this prescription when the leading coefficient or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Hornbostel , G. P. Lepage , C. Morningstar

Theoretical calculations for event shape observables are often determined by using the conventional scale setting; i.e. the procedure defined by setting the renormalization scale to the center-of-mass energy $\mu_r=\sqrt{s}$ and evaluating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-04 Zhu-Yu Ren , Sheng-Quan Wang , Jian-Ming Shen , Xing-Gang Wu , 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 critical behavior of a quenched random hypercubic sample of linear size $L$ is considered, within the ``random-$T_{c}$'' field-theoretical mode, by using the renormalization group method. A finite-size scaling behavior is established…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Chamati , E. Korutcheva , N. S. Tonchev

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

The use of MS-like renormalization schemes in QCD requires an implementation of nontrivial matching conditions across thresholds, a fact often overlooked in the literature. We shortly review the use of these matching conditions in QCD and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 German Rodrigo , Arcadi Santamaria

I present a brief review of the generalized Brodsky-Lepage-McKenzie (BLM) approaches to fix the scale-dependence of the renormalization group (RG) invariant quantities in QCD. At first, these approaches are based on the expansions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-10 A. L. Kataev

A short survey of the renormalization problem in QCD and its non-perturbative solution by means of numerical simulations on the lattice is given. Most emphasis is on scale dependent renormalizations, which can be reliably addressed via a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jochen Heitger

The principle of maximum conformality (PMC) is used to remove uncertainties in the renormalization scale and scheme, thus eliminating unnecessary systematic errors for high-precision perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD) predictions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Daniel Salinas-Arizmendi , Claudio Dib , Ivan Schmidt

We present a formalism to evaluate QCD diagrams with a single virtual gluon using a running coupling constant at the vertices. This method, which corresponds to an all-order resummation of certain terms in a perturbative series, provides a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 Matthias Neubert

We argue that the choice of an appropriate, massive, renormalization scheme can greatly improve the apparent convergence of perturbation theory at finite temperature. This is illustrated by the calculation of the pressure of a scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Jean-Paul Blaizot , Nicolas Wschebor

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

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

Results of perturbation theory in quantum field theory generally depend on the renormalization scheme that is in use. In particular, they depend on the scale. We try to make perturbation theory scheme invariant by re-expanding with respect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Chris Dams , Ronald Kleiss

We analyse the top-quark decay at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD by using the Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) which provides a systematic way to eliminate renormalization scheme and scale ambiguities in perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-08 Rui-Qing Meng , Sheng-Quan Wang , Ting Sun , Chao-Qin Luo , Jian-Ming Shen , Xing-Gang Wu