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We find that the anomalous dimension (in the $\bar{MS}$ scheme) of the chromo-magnetic operator $g_s\bar h_v\sigma_{\mu\nu} G^{\mu\nu} h_v$ in the heavy-quark effective theory is \gamma_{mag} = (C_A\alpha_s / 2\pi) [1 + ( 17/18 C_A - 13/18…
We compute the three-loop QCD corrections to the quark chromomagnetic moment and thus obtain the matching coefficient and the anomalous dimension of the chromomagnetic interaction in HQET. As a byproduct we obtain the three-loop corrections…
We present the full analytic result for the three-loop angle-dependent cusp anomalous dimension in QCD. With this result, infrared divergences of planar scattering processes with massive particles can be predicted to that order. Moreover,…
We compute the fermionic contribution to the photon-quark form factor to four-loop order in QCD in the planar limit in analytic form. From the divergent part of the latter the cusp and collinear anomalous dimensions are extracted. Results…
In a recent publication we have investigated the spectrum of anomalous dimensions for arbitrary composite operators in the critical N-vector model in 4-epsilon dimensions. We could establish properties like upper and lower bounds for the…
A technique of large-charge expansion provides a novel opportunity for calculation of critical dimensions of operators $\phi^Q$ with fixed charge $Q$. In the small-coupling regime the polynomial structure of the anomalous dimensions can be…
Using the higher covariant derivatives regularization of gauge theories in the framework of the background field method, supplemented with one-loop Pauli-Villars regulator fields, we obtain a version of the renormalization group equation…
The leading order coefficients of the beta-function of QCD are computed in a large N_f expansion. They are in agreement with the three loop MSbar calculation. The method involves computing the anomalous dimension of the operator (G^2_{mu…
We search for infrared zeros of the beta function and evaluate the anomalous dimension of the mass at the associated fixed point for asymptotically free vector-like fermionic gauge theories with gauge group SU(N). The fixed points of the…
In this paper, we consider the $\beta$ function at one-loop approximation for noncommutative scalar QED. The renormalization of the full theory, including the basic vertices, and the renormalization group equation are fully established.…
We revive the idea of using physical anomalous dimensions in the QCD scale evolution of deep-inelastic structure functions and their scaling violations and present a detailed phenomenological study of its applicability. Differences with…
In this letter we show that the one-loop QCD $\beta$-function can be obtained from an index theorem on twistor space. This is achieved by recalling that the $\theta$-angle of self-dual gauge theory flows according the one-loop…
We introduce a method for extracting the cusp anomalous dimension at L loops from four-gluon amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills without evaluating any integrals that depend on the kinematical invariants. We show that the anomalous dimension only…
Three-loop $\beta$-functions of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model regularized by higher covariant derivatives are obtained for an arbitrary supersymmetric subtraction scheme. For this purpose we first calculate two-loop anomalous…
Three-loop quantum corrections to the effective action are calculated for N=1 supersymmetric electrodynamics, regularized by higher derivatives. Using the obtained results we investigate the anomaly puzzle in the considered model.
We investigate a family of four-dimensional quantum field theories with weakly interacting ultraviolet fixed points up to four loop order in perturbation theory. Key new ingredients are the three loop gauge contributions to quartic scalar…
The one-loop effective action for a generic set of quantum fields is calculared as a nonlocal expansion in powers of the curvatures (field strengths). This expansion is obtained to third order in the curvature. It is stressed that the…
We assess the accuracy of our previous Asymptotic Pad\'e predictions of the five-loop QCD $\beta$-function and quark mass anomalous dimension in the light of subsequent exact results. We find the low-order coefficients in an expansion in…
In this talk the methods and computer tools which were used in our recent calculation of the three-loop Standard Model renormalization group coefficients are discussed. A brief review of the techniques based on special features of…
Quantum electrodynamics (QED) fixed in the 't~Hooft-Veltman gauge is renormalized to three loops in the MSbar scheme. The beta-functions and anomalous dimensions are computed as functions of the usual QED coupling and the additional…