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The strong corrections to the R-ratio of electronpositron annihilation into hadrons are studied at the higherloop levels. Specifically, the derivation of a general form of the commonly employed approximate expression for the Rratio (which constitutes its truncated re-expansion at high energies) is delineated, the appearance of the pertinent π 2 -terms is expounded, and their basic features are examined. It is demonstrated that the validity range of such approximation is strictly limited to √ s/Λ > exp(π/2) 4.81 and that it converges rather slowly when the energy scale approaches this value. The spectral function required for the proper calculation of the R-ratio is explicitly derived and its properties at the higher-loop levels are studied. The developed method of calculation of the spectral function enables one to obtain the explicit expression for the latter at an arbitrary loop level. By making use of the derived spectral function the proper expression for the R-ratio is calculated up to the five-loop level and its properties are examined. It is shown that the loop convergence of the proper expression for the R-ratio is better than that of its commonly employed approximation. The impact of the omitted higher-order π 2 -terms on the latter is also discussed.
The strong corrections to the R-ratio of electronpositron annihilation into hadrons are studied at the higherloop levels. Specifically, the derivation of a general form of the commonly employed approximate expression for the Rratio (which constitutes its truncated re-expansion at high energies) is delineated, the appearance of the pertinent π 2 -terms is expounded, and their basic features are examined. It is demonstrated that the validity range of such approximation is strictly limited to √ s/Λ > exp(π/2) 4.81 and that it converges rather slowly when the energy scale approaches this value. The spectral function required for the proper calculation of the R-ratio is explicitly derived and its properties at the higher-loop levels are studied. The developed method of calculation of the spectral function enables one to obtain the explicit expression for the latter at an arbitrary loop level. By making use of the derived spectral function the proper expression for the R-ratio is calculated up to the five-loop level and its properties are examined. It is shown that the loop convergence of the proper expression for the R-ratio is better than that of its commonly employed approximation. The impact of the omitted higher-order π 2 -terms on the latter is also discussed.
We compute a theoretically driven prediction for the hadronic contribution to the electromagnetic running coupling at the Z scale using lattice QCD and state-of-the-art perturbative QCD. We obtain$$ {\displaystyle \begin{array}{cc}\Delta {\alpha}^{(5)}\left({M}_Z^2\right)=\left[279.5\pm 0.9\pm 0.59\right]\times {10}^{-4}& \left(\textrm{Mainz}\ \textrm{Collaboration}\right)\\ {}\Delta {\alpha}^{(5)}\left({M}_Z^2\right)=\left[278.42\pm 0.22\pm 0.59\right]\times {10}^{-4}& \left(\textrm{BMW}\ \textrm{Collaboration}\right),\end{array}} $$ Δ α 5 M Z 2 = 279.5 ± 0.9 ± 0.59 × 10 − 4 Mainz Collaboration Δ α 5 M Z 2 = 278.42 ± 0.22 ± 0.59 × 10 − 4 BMW Collaboration , where the first error is the quoted lattice uncertainty. The second is due to perturbative QCD, and is dominated by the parametric uncertainty on $$ {\hat{\alpha}}_s $$ α ̂ s , which is based on a rather conservative error. Using instead the PDG average, we find a total error on $$ \Delta {\alpha}^{(5)}\left({M}_Z^2\right) $$ Δ α 5 M Z 2 of 0.4 × 10−4. Furthermore, with a particular emphasis on the charm quark contributions, we also update $$ \Delta {\alpha}^{(5)}\left({M}_Z^2\right) $$ Δ α 5 M Z 2 when low-energy cross-section data is used as an input, obtaining $$ \Delta {\alpha}^{(5)}\left({M}_Z^2\right) $$ Δ α 5 M Z 2 = [276.29 ± 0.38 ± 0.62] × 10−4. The difference between lattice QCD and cross-section-driven results reflects the known tension between both methods in the computation of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. Our results are expressed in a way that will allow straightforward modifications and an easy implementation in electroweak global fits.
We present a determination of the perturbative QCD (pQCD) coupling using the V+A channel ALEPH $$\tau $$ τ -decay data. The determination involves the double-pinched Borel–Laplace Sum Rules and Finite Energy Sum Rules. The theoretical basis is the Operator Product Expansion (OPE) of the V+A channel Adler function in which the higher order terms of the leading-twist part originate from a model based on the known structure of the leading renormalons of this quantity. The applied evaluation methods are contour-improved perturbation theory (CIPT), fixed-order perturbation theory (FOPT), and Principal Value of the Borel resummation (PV). All the methods involve truncations in the order of the coupling. In contrast to the truncated CIPT method, the truncated FOPT and PV methods account correctly for the suppression of various renormalon contributions of the Adler function in the mentioned sum rules. The extracted value of the $${\overline{\mathrm{MS}}}$$ MS ¯ coupling is $$\alpha _s(m_{\tau }^2) = 0.3116 \pm 0.0073$$ α s ( m τ 2 ) = 0.3116 ± 0.0073 [$$\alpha _s(M_Z^2)=0.1176 \pm 0.0010$$ α s ( M Z 2 ) = 0.1176 ± 0.0010 ] for the average of the FOPT and PV methods, which we regard as our main result. On the other hand, if we include in the average also the CIPT method, the resulting values are significantly higher, $$\alpha _s(m_{\tau }^2) = 0.3194 \pm 0.0167$$ α s ( m τ 2 ) = 0.3194 ± 0.0167 [$$\alpha _s(M_Z^2)=0.1186 \pm 0.0021$$ α s ( M Z 2 ) = 0.1186 ± 0.0021 ].
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