alpha_s and the tau hadronic width

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2009-01-11

arxiv.org/abs/0901.1434v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

6 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at the 10th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia, Sep. 22-25, 2008

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Different choices exist for the renormalisation group resummation in the determination of $\alpha_s$ from hadronic $\tau$ decays: namely fixed-order (FOPT) and contour-improved perturbation theory (CIPT). The two approaches lead to systematic differences in the resulting $\alpha_s$. On the basis of a model for higher-order terms in the perturbative series, which incorporates well-known structure from renormalons, it is found that while CIPT is unable to account for the fully resummed series, FOPT smoothly approaches the Borel sum. Employing the model to determine $\alpha_s$ yields $\alpha_s(M_\tau)=0.316 \pm 0.006$, which after evolution leads to $\alpha_s(M_Z) = 0.1180 \pm 0.0008$.

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