Renormalons and the Top Quark Mass Measurement

2019/01/15 by Paolo Nason, Nason, Paolo
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1901.04737

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Abstract

I illustrate a recent work on the large-order behaviour of the perturbative expansion (and the related power-suppressed ambiguities) arising from infrared renormalons, in the context of top mass measurements in open-top production processes.

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