Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-03-12
Nucl.Phys. B603 (2001) 42-68
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
29 pages, LaTeX, 12 eps-figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00158-4
We study the evolution of the flavour non-singlet deep-inelastic structure functions F_{2,NS} and F_3 at the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N^3LO) of massless perturbative QCD. The present information on the corresponding three-loop coefficient functions is used to derive approximate expressions of these quantities which prove completely sufficient for values x > 10^{-2} of the Bjorken variable. The inclusion of the N^3LO corrections reduces the theoretical uncertainty of alpha_s determinations from non-singlet scaling violations arising from the truncation of the perturbation series to less than 1%. We also study the predictions of the soft-gluon resummation, of renormalization-scheme optimizations by the principle of minimal sensitivity (PMS) and the effective charge (ECH) method, and of the Pade' summation for the structure-function evolution kernels. The PMS, ECH and Pade' approaches are found to facilitate a reliable estimate of the corrections beyond N^3LO.
van Neerven W. L.
Vogt Adam
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