Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1995-09-26
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.47:100-111,1996
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
12 Pages, uuencoded Compressed Postscript File; Invited Lecture Presented at the 1995 International Symposium on Lattice Field
Scientific paper
10.1016/0920-5632(96)00036-9
The calculation of higher twist (or dimension) corrections to physical quantities using operator product expansions is delicate. If dimensional regularization is used to regulate the ultra-violet divergences then there are ambiguities in the Wilson coefficient functions due to infra-red renormalon singularities. With a hard ultra violet cut-off, such as the inverse lattice spacing $a$, there are no renormalon ambiguities, as a result of cancellations between terms which in finite orders of perturbation theory diverge as inverse powers of $a$, and those which diverge at most logarithmically. In this lecture I review these questions, explaining the steps necessary to obtain predictions for physical quantities from lattice measurements of matrix elements of higher dimensional operators. The ideas are illustrated by considering quantities computed using the heavy quark effective theory beyond leading order in the heavy quark mass.
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