NONPERTURBATIVE EFFECTS IN TAU-DECAY

被引:11
作者
PUMPLIN, J
机构
[1] Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1990年 / 41卷 / 03期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.41.900
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P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
It has been suggested that the lifetime of the lepton can be calculated using perturbative QCD, with sufficient accuracy that comparison with the measured lifetime can be used to determine the QCD scale parameter . Contrary to this suggestion, nonperturbative effects are shown here to introduce uncertainties in the calculated lifetime which are so large as to make the determination of unreliable. These nonperturbative effects are associated with hadronic thresholds and resonances, and are much larger than previous estimates based on QCD sum rules. Independent experimental tests, which make use of the hadronic mass spectrum in decay, are proposed. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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页码:900 / 905
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