Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-05-15
Nucl.Phys. B586 (2000) 56-72; Erratum-ibid. B634 (2002) 413-414
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
LaTeX, 20 pages, 9 figures (38 PostScript files). Error affecting Eqs. (9), (10) and Table 2 corrected. The numerical effect o
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00393-X
The total cross section for the production of massive quarks in electron positron annihilation can be predicted in perturbative QCD. After expansion in m^2/s the quartic terms, i.e. those proportional to m^4/s^2, are calculated up to order \alpha_s^3 for vector and axial current induced rates. Predictions relevant for charm, bottom and top quarks production are presented. The \alpha_s^3 corrections are shown to be comparable to terms of order \alpha_s and \alpha_s^2. As a consequence, the predictions exhibit a sizeable dependence on the renormalization scale. The stability of the prediction is improved and, at the same time, the relative size of the large order terms decreases by replacing the running mass \bar{m}(\mu) with the scheme independent invariant one \hat{m}. By combining these results with the prediction for massless case and the quadratic mass terms the cross section for massive quark production at electron positron colliders is put under control in order \alpha_s^3 from the high energy region down to fairly low energies.
Chetyrkin K. G.
Harlander Robert V.
Kuehn Johann H.
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