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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | New determination of αs from hadronic τ decays |
Other Titles: | New determination of alphas from hadronic tau decays |
Author: | Boito, Diogo R. Cata, Oscar Golterman, Maarten Jamin, Matthias Maltman, Kim Osborne, James L. Peris, Santiago |
Citation: | Physical Review D, 2011; 84(11):113006 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
ISSN: | 1550-7998 |
School/Discipline: | School of Chemistry and Physics : Physics and Mathematical Physics |
Statement of Responsibility: | Diogo Boito, Oscar Catà, Maarten Golterman, Matthias Jamin, Kim Maltman, James Osborne, and Santiago Peris |
Abstract: | We present a new framework for the extraction of the strong coupling from hadronic τ decays through finite-energy sum rules. Our focus is on the small, but still significant nonperturbative effects that, in principle, affect both the central value and the systematic error. We employ a quantitative model in order to accommodate violations of quark-hadron duality, and enforce a consistent treatment of the higher-dimensional contributions of the operator product expansion to our sum rules. Using 1998 OPAL data for the nonstrange isovector vector and axial-vector spectral functions, we find the n(sub)f=3 values α(sub)s(m(sub)τ²)=0.307±0.019 in fixed-order perturbation theory, and 0.322±0.026 in contour-improved perturbation theory. For comparison, the original OPAL analysis of the same data led to the values 0.324±0.014 (fixed order) and 0.348±0.021 (contour improved). |
Rights: | ©2011 American Physical Society |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.113006 |
Appears in Collections: | Physics publications |
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