R evolution: Improving perturbative QCD
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Hoang, Andre H.
Jain, Ambar
Scimemi, Ignazio
Stewart, Iain
Date Issued
July 2010
Journal
Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
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Hoang, Andre H. et al. "." Physical Review D 82.1 (2010): 011501. © 2010 The American Physical Society
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Abstract
Perturbative QCD results in the MS̅ scheme can be dramatically improved by switching to a scheme that accounts for the dominant power law dependence on the factorization scale in the operator product expansion. We introduce the “MSR scheme” which achieves this in a Lorentz and gauge invariant way and has a very simple relation to MS̅ . Results in MSR depend on a cutoff parameter R, in addition to the μ of MS̅ . R variations can be used to independently estimate (i.) the size of power corrections, and (ii.) higher-order perturbative corrections (much like μ in MS̅ ). We give two examples at three-loop order, the ratio of mass splittings in the B*-B and D*-D systems, and the Ellis-Jaffe sum rule as a function of momentum transfer Q in deep inelastic scattering. Comparing to data, the perturbative MSR results work well even for Q∼1 GeV, and power corrections are reduced compared to MS̅ .
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.011501
