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Johan Rathsman by the sea

Johan Rathsman

Senior lecturer

Johan Rathsman by the sea

Two-loop scale dependence of the static QCD potential including quark masses

Author

  • Stanley J. Brodsky
  • Michael Melles
  • Johan Rathsman

Summary, in English

The interaction potential V(Q2) between static test charges can be used to define an effective charge αv(Q2) and a physically based renormalization scheme for quantum chromodynamics and other gauge theories. In this paper we use recent results for finite-mass fermionic corrections to the heavy-quark potential at two loops to derive the next-to-Ieading order term for the Gell-Mann-Low function of the V scheme. The resulting effective number of flavors NF(Q2/m2) in the αv scheme is determined as a gauge-independent and analytic function of the ratio of the momentum transfer to the quark pole mass. The results give an automatic decoupling of heavy quarks and are independent of the renormalization procedure. Commensurate scale relations then provide the next-to-leading order connection between all perturbatively calculable observables to the analytic and gaugeinvariant av scheme without any scale ambiguity and a well-defined number of active flavors. The inclusion of finite quark mass effects in the running of the coupling is compared with the standard treatment of finite quark mass effects in the minimal subtraction (MS) scheme.

Publishing year

1999-12-01

Language

English

Publication/Series

Physical Review D

Volume

60

Issue

9

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Physical Society

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0556-2821