Perturbative expansion of τ hadronic spectral function moments and α s extractions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Beneke, Martin ^a   Boito, Diogo ^a   Jamin, Matthias ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

QCD; Renormalization Group; Renormalization Regularization and Renormalons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873282518     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2013)125     Document Type: Article

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