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Three-loop QCD+QED corrections to on-shell quark renormalization

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-02-24 v2

Abstract

We present the three-loop QCD+QED mixed corrections to the on-shell quark mass and wave-function renormalization constants through orders O(αsmαn)\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^m\alpha^n) with m+n=3m+n=3. We further derive the three-loop relation between the pole mass and the MS\overline{\text{MS}} mass of a heavy quark, including the complete mixed QCD+QED contributions. The corresponding quark-mass anomalous dimension in the presence of both interactions is also extracted. Moreover, we provide the explicit conversion formulae, up to the same perturbative order, between the pole mass and the trace-anomaly subtracted σ\sigma-mass of heavy quark.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2602.10973,
  title  = {Three-loop QCD+QED corrections to on-shell quark renormalization},
  author = {Long Chen and Hong-Yang Han and Zhe Li and Marco Niggetiedt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.10973},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

39 pages, 2 figures; a typo in the expression for $Z_Q^{os}$ fixed in the text; the expression for $Z_q^{os}$ added for completeness

R2 v1 2026-07-01T10:32:05.169Z