Analysis of the renormalization scheme ambiguities in the QCD corrections to hadronic decays of the tau lepton

1996/11/06 by Piotr A. Raczka, Raczka, Piotr A.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9611257

4 pages LateX, 2 figures in PostScript, uses stwol.sty and epsfig.sty, to appear in the Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on High Energy Physics, Warsaw, Poland, 25-31 July, 1996

arxiv created 1996/11/06 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

The QCD corrections to the R_τ¹² moment of the invariant mass distribution in hadronic decays of the tau lepton are discussed. The next-to-next-to-leading order prediction is shown to be stable with respect to change of the renormalization scheme, provided that the contour integral expression is used. The optimized predictions are obtained using the principle of minimal sensitivity to select the preferred renormalization scheme. The optimized predictions for R_τ¹² and R_τ are used in a simplified fit to the experimental data to determine the strong coupling constant and the parameter characterizing the nonperturbative contribution.

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