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Renormalons and 1/Q^2 Corrections

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We argue that the appearance of the Landau pole in the running coupling of QCD introduces 1/Q^2 power corrections in current correlation functions. These terms are not accounted for by the standard operator product expansion and is the price to be paid for the lack of a unique definition of the running coupling at the 1/Q^2 level. We review also possible phenomenological implications of the 1/Q^2 terms in an alternative language of the ultraviolet renormalon.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9705318,
  title  = {Renormalons and 1/Q^2 Corrections},
  author = {R. Akhoury and V. I. Zakharov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9705318},
  year   = {2009}
}

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