Exploring arbitrarily high orders of optimized perturbation theory in QCD with nf→1612

Perturbative QCD with nf flavours of massless quarks becomes simple in the hypothetical limit nf→1612, where the leading β-function coefficient vanishes. The Banks–Zaks (BZ) expansion in a0≡8321(1612−nf) is straightforward to obtain from perturbative results in MS‾ or any renormalization scheme (RS)...

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Main Author: P.M. Stevenson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-09-01
Series:Nuclear Physics B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321316302000