Scheme dependence of the next-to-next-to-leading QCD corrections toand the spurious QCD infrared fixed point
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 43 (5) , 1633-1640
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.43.1633
Abstract
The analytical result of reevaluation of the massless three-loop next-to-next-to-leading-order QCD corrections to is presented. The analysis of the scheme-dependence property is considered. The value of the scheme-invariant quantity is determined. It turns out to be negative and large. Therefore, the truncated effective function has an infrared zero. It is argued that this "fixed point" is a spurious one. The problem of getting reliable information from the perturbative series with large coefficients is discussed.
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