Strong coupling constant to four loops in the analytic approach to QCD

Details Strong coupling constant to four loops in the analytic approach to QCD Strong coupling constant to four loops in the analytic approach to QCD

2002-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0211339v1

Few Body Syst. 32 (2003) 193-217

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

30 pages, LATEX, 4 tables, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1007/s00601-003-0005-3

The QCD analytic running coupling alpha_{an} which has no nonphysical singularities for all Q^2>0 is considered for the initial perturbation theory approximations up to four loop order. The finiteness of the analytic coupling at zero is shown to be a consequence of the asymptotic freedom property of the initial theory. The nonperturbative contributions to the analytic coupling are extracted explicitly. For all Q>Lambda they are represented in the form of an expansion in inverse powers of Euclidean momentum squared. The effective method for a precise calculation of the analytic running coupling is developed on the basis of the stated expansion. The energy scale evolution of the analytic running coupling for the one- to four-loop cases is studied and the higher loop stability and low dependence on the quark threshold matching conditions in comparison with the perturbative running coupling were found. Normalizing the analytic running coupling at the scale of the rest mass of the Z boson with the world average value of the strong coupling constant, alpha_{an}(M_Z^2)=0.1181^{+0.002}_{-0.002}, one obtains as a result of the energy scale evolution of the analytic running coupling alpha_{an}(M_tau^2)= 0.2943^{+0.0111}_{-0.0106} that is notably lower than the estimations of the coupling strength available at the scale of the mass of the tau lepton.

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