Published January 5, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Four-loop QCD analysis of the Bjorken sum rule

  • 1. Gomel State Technical University, 246746 Gomel (Belarus)
  • 2. High Energy Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, SE-75121 Uppsala (Sweden)
  • 3. Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region (Russian Federation)

Description

We study the polarized Bjorken sum rule (BSR) at low momentum transfers in the range 0.22<Q<1.73 GeV with the four-loop N3LO expression for the coefficient function CBj(αs) in the framework of the common QCD perturbation theory (PT) and the singularity-free analytic perturbation theory (APT). The analysis of the PT series for CBj(αs) gives a hint to its asymptotic nature manifesting itself in the region Q<1 GeV. It relates to the observation that the accuracy of both the three- and four-loop PT predictions happens to be at the same 10% level. On the other hand, the usage of the two-loop APT allows one to describe the precise low energy JLab data down to Q∼300 MeV and gives a possibility for reliable extraction of the higher twist (HT) corrections. At the same time, above Q∼700 MeV the APT two-loop order with HT is equivalent to the four-loop PT with HT compatible to zero and is adequate to current accuracy of the data.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.023

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.023;
arXiv
arXiv:1106.6352v1;
PII
S0370-2693(11)01387-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
706
Journal Issue
4-5
Journal Page Range
p. 340-344
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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