Using an effective charges method to extract _MS from event shape moments in e^+e^- annihilation

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2012.01.016MaRDI QIDQ447297zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. J. Maxwell, K. E. Morgan

Publication date 3 September 2012

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.6204

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: We use an Effective Charges (ECH) method to extract Lambda-MS-bar, and hence alpha_s(M_z), from event shape moments in e+e- annihilation. We compare these results with ones obtained using standard MS-bar perturbation theory. The ECH method at NLO is found to perform better than standard MS-bar perturbation theory when applied to means of event shape observables. For example, when we apply the NLO ECH method to <1-T> we get alpha_s(M_z)=0.1193pm0.0003. However ECH at NNLO is found to work less well than ECH at NLO, and the ECH method also fails to describe data for higher moments of event shapes. We attempt to explain this by considering the ECH beta-function as an asymptotic series. We also examine the effect of adding two different models for non-perturbative power corrections to the perturbative approximation given by the ECH method and MS-bar perturbation theory. Whilst only small power corrections are required when using ECH at NLO, it is found that these models are insufficient to couteract the undesirable behaviour of ECH at NNLO.

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