α s and the τ hadronic width: Fixed-order, contour- improved and higher-order perturbation theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Beneke, Martin ^a   Jamin, Matthias ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

QCD; Renormalization group; Renormalization regularization and renormalons

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149292043     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/044     Document Type: Article

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