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Bottomonium precision tests from full lattice QCD: Hyperfine splitting, ϒ leptonic width, and b quark contribution to e+e−→hadrons
2021
We calculate the mass difference between the $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Upsilon}}$ and ${\ensuremath{\eta}}_{b}$ and the $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Upsilon}}$ leptonic width from lattice QCD using the highly improved staggered quark formalism for the $b$ quark and including $u$, $d$, $s$ and $c$ quarks in the sea. We have results for lattices with lattice spacing as low as 0.03 fm and multiple heavy quark masses, enabling us to map out the heavy quark mass dependence and determine values at the $b$ quark mass. Our results are ${M}_{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Upsilon}}}\ensuremath{-}{M}_{{\ensuremath{\eta}}_{b}}=57.5(2.3)(1.0)\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}$ (where the second uncertainty comes from neglect of …
Natural constraints on the gluon-quark vertex
2016
In principle, the strong-interaction sector of the Standard Model is characterised by a unique renormalisation-group-invariant (RGI) running interaction and a unique form for the dressed--gluon-quark vertex, $\Gamma_\mu$; but, whilst much has been learnt about the former, the latter is still obscure. In order to improve this situation, we use a RGI running-interaction that reconciles both top-down and bottom-up analyses of the gauge sector in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) to compute dressed-quark gap equation solutions with 1,660,000 distinct Ansaetze for $\Gamma_\mu$. Each one of the solutions is then tested for compatibility with three physical criteria and, remarkably, we find that merely…
QCD effects and $b$-tagging at LEP I
1995
We analyze the impact of using $b$-tagged samples in studying non-Abelian effects due to QCD in $e^+e^-\ar 4$jet events at $\sqrt s=M_{Z^0}$, using angular variable analyses and comparisons with $e^+e^-\ar 3 \mbox{jet}\gamma$ events. We find that QCD effects are largely enhanced in $b$-quark samples with respect to `unflavoured' ones, where energy-ordering is used to distinguish between gluon and quark jets. We show that the $b$-quark mass influences the angular distributions significantly and should not be neglected
Generalized on-shell renormalization of heavy quarks
1992
A generalized on-shell (GOS) renormalization scheme of QCD is developed to evaluate the renormalization of heavy quark wave functions and currents. All large logarithms arising from the physical range of quark masses and momentum transferq 2 can be absorbed into wave function and vertex renormalization. Our results are more general than those of the heavy quark effective theory and agree with the latter only at zero recoil. The proposed GOS scheme is very suitable for the μ/m Q expansion. As an application we discuss the renormalization of the flavour changing currentsb-c, t-b andt-c.
Correlation of pp data with predictions of improved six-quark structure models.
1987
Recent experimental data indicate a structure in \ensuremath{\Delta}${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{L}$ corresponding to a pp mass of 2.7 GeV/${c}^{2}$, as earlier predicted for a six-quark $^{1}\mathrm{S}_{0}$ state by an R-matrix treatment of the cloudy-bag-model quark degrees of freedom interior to a coupled-isobar-channel system. The $^{1}\mathrm{S}_{0}$ model is improved to agree with 2\ensuremath{\pi} production data at 800 MeV laboratory energy. The resulting $^{1}\mathrm{S}_{0}$ partial wave and recently improved models of the background partial waves as well as older versions of the phase parameters predict experimental observables in the resonance region. The predicted width and inelastic…
Determination of the Strange-Quark Density of the Proton from ATLAS Measurements of theW→ℓνandZ→ℓℓCross Sections
2012
AQCD analysis is reported of ATLAS data on inclusive W-+/- and Z boson production in pp collisions at the LHC, jointly with ep deep-inelastic scattering data from HERA. The ATLAS data exhibit sensitivity to the light quark sea composition and magnitude at Bjorken x similar to 0:01. Specifically, the data support the hypothesis of a symmetric composition of the light quark sea at low x. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea quark distributions is determined to be 1:00(-0:28)(+0.25) at absolute four-momentum transfer squared Q(2) = 1: 9 GeV2 and x = 0: 023.
Pionic effects in deep inelastic scattering off nuclei
1992
The structure functions calculated in the Chiral bag model reproduce quite well, after appropriate perturbative evolution to large energy scales, the experimental data. We use these results to interpret the structure of the $EMC$ data as a quenching of the pion decay constant due to the in medium behavior of the nucleon. This explanation supports recent proposals of this phenomenon whose origin is the scale invariance of the $QCD$ lagrangian.
Multiparton NLO corrections by numerical methods
2013
In this talk we discuss an algorithm for the numerical calculation of one-loop QCD amplitudes and present results at next-to-leading order for jet observables in electron-positron annihilation calculated with the above-mentioned method. The algorithm consists of subtraction terms, approximating the soft, collinear and ultraviolet divergences of QCD one-loop amplitudes, as well as a method to deform the integration contour for the loop integration into the complex plane to match Feynman's i delta rule. The algorithm is formulated at the amplitude level and does not rely on Feynman graphs. Therefore all ingredients of the algorithm can be calculated efficiently using recurrence relations. The…
Recent results within Lipatov's high energy effective action
2013
We review Lipatov’s high energy effective action and show that it is a useful computational tool to calculate QCD scattering amplitudes in the high energy limit. We explain in some detail our recent work where a novel regularization and subtraction procedure has been proposed that allows to extend the use of this effective action beyond tree level. As explicit results we discuss the derivation of forward jet vertices, for jet events with and without rapidity gaps.
Measurement of the high-mass Drell–Yan differential cross-section in pp collisions at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
2013
This Letter reports a measurement of the high-mass Drell–Yan differential cross-section in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV at the LHC. Based on an integrated luminosity ...