Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-12-30
Few Body Syst. 40 (2006) 71-99
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
29 pages,LateX file, uses IOP LateX class file, 2 figures, 13 Tables. Formulas (4)-(7) and Table 1 were relegated to Appendix
Scientific paper
10.1007/s00601-006-0164-0
Recently, the QCD renormalization group (RG) equation at higher orders in MS-like renormalization schemes has been solved for the running coupling as a series expansion in powers of the exact 2-loop order coupling. In this work, we prove that the power series converges to all orders in perturbation theory. Solving the RG equation at higher orders, we determine the running coupling as an implicit function of the 2-loop order running coupling. Then we analyze the singularity structure of the higher order coupling in the complex 2-loop coupling plane. This enables us to calculate the radii of convergence of the series solutions at the 3- and 4-loop orders as a function of the number of quark flavours $n_{\rm f}$. In parallel, we discuss in some detail the singularity structure of the ${\bar{\rm MS}}$ coupling at the 3- and 4-loops in the complex momentum squared plane for $ 0\leq n_{\rm f} \leq 16 $. The correspondence between the singularity structure of the running coupling in the complex momentum squared plane and the convergence radius of the series solution is established. For sufficiently large $n_{\rm f}$ values, we find that the series converges for all values of the momentum squared variable $Q^2=-q^2>0$. For lower values of $n_{\rm f}$, in the ${\bar{\rm MS}}$ scheme, we determine the minimal value of the momentum squared $Q_{\rm min}^2$ above which the series converges. We study properties of the non-power series corresponding to the presented power series solution in the QCD Analytic Perturbation Theory approach of Shirkov and Solovtsov. The Euclidean and Minkowskian versions of the non-power series are found to be uniformly convergent over whole ranges of the corresponding momentum squared variables.
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