Analytic QCD Flavor Thresholds Through Two Loops

dc.creatorMelles, Michael
dc.date1998-09-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:04:41Z
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dc.descriptionIn this talk \footnote{Presented at ICHEP'98, Vancouver, CA, July 1998}, we present a recently suggested way on how to analytically incorporate massive threshold effects into observables calculated in massless QCD. No matching is required since the renormalization scale is in this approach connected to the physical momentum transfer between static quarks in a color singlet state. We discuss massive fermionic corrections to the heavy quark potential through two loops. The calculation uses a mixed approach of analytical, computer-algebraic and numerical tools including Monte Carlo integration of finite terms. Strong consistency checks are performed by ensuring the proper cancellation of all non-local divergences by the appropriate counterterms and by comparing with the massless limit. The size of the effect for the (gauge invariant) fermionic part of $α_V ({\bf q^2},m^2) $ relative to the massless case at the charm and bottom flavor thresholds is found to be of order 33%.
dc.descriptionTALK PRESENTED AT ICHEP'98 IN VANCOUVER, CA, JULY 1998; needs style file ltwol2e.sty and latex2e
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9809212
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9809212
dc.identifierTo be published in the ICHEP'98-proceedings
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/48195
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleAnalytic QCD Flavor Thresholds Through Two Loops
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