Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2003-03-19
Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 014002
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
13 figures, 48 pages. Additional references. Minor textual revision
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.014002
We consider a Borel sum definition of all-orders perturbation theory for Minkowskian QCD observables such as the R(e+e-) ratio, and show that both this perturbative component and the additional non-perturbative Operator Product Expansion (OPE) component can remain separately well-defined for all values of energy sqrt(s), with the perturbative component dominating as s-->infinity, and with both components contributing as s-->0. In the infrared s-->0 limit the perturbative correction to the parton model result for R(e+e-) has an all-orders perturbation theory component which smoothly freezes to the value R(0)=2/b, where b=(33-2Nf)/6 is the first QCD beta-function coefficient with Nf flavours of massless quarks. For freezing one requires Nf<9. The freezing behaviour is manifested by the ``contour-improved'' or ``Analytic Perturbation Theory'' (APT), in which an infinite subset of analytical continuation terms are resummed to all-orders. We show that for the Euclidean Adler-D function, D(Q^2), the perturbative component remains defined into the infrared provided that ALL the renormalon singularities care taken into account, but no analogue of the APT reorganisation of perturbation theory is possible. We perform phenomenological comparisons of suitably smeared low-energy data for the R(e+e-) ratio, with the perturbative freezing perdictions, and find good agreement.
Howe D. M.
Maxwell Clerk J.
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