Asymptotic Series and Precocious Scaling

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1999-11-19

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9911416v1

Found.Phys. 30 (2000) 695-704

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

12 pages. Submitted to Foundations of Physics in honour of Kurt Haller's 70th birthday

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Some of the basic concepts regarding asymptotic series are reviewed. A heuristic proof is given that the divergent QCD perturbation series is asymptotic. By treating it as an asymptotic expansion we show that it makes sense to keep only the first few terms. The example of e^+e^- annihilation is considered. It is shown that by keeping only the first few terms one can get within a per cent (or smaller) of the complete sum of the series even at very low momenta where the coupling is large. More generally, this affords an explanation of the phenomena of precocious scaling and why keeping only leading order corrections generally works so well.

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