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Main Authors: Wu, Zhi-Fei, Wu, Xing-Gang, Yan, Jiang, Huang, Xu-Dong, Shen, Jian-Ming
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05131
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author Wu, Zhi-Fei
Wu, Xing-Gang
Yan, Jiang
Huang, Xu-Dong
Shen, Jian-Ming
author_facet Wu, Zhi-Fei
Wu, Xing-Gang
Yan, Jiang
Huang, Xu-Dong
Shen, Jian-Ming
contents It is generally believed that the QCD theory is the fundamental theory for strong interactions. Due to the asymptotic freedom at the short distances, after proper factorization, one can predict the value of high-energy physical observable by using the perturbative QCD (pQCD). It has been demonstrated that by recursively using of renormalization group equation with the help of Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC), one can eliminate conventional renormalization scheme-and-scale ambiguities existed in the initial fixed-order pQCD series. To extend the predictive power of pQCD, we are still facing the problem of how to reliably estimate the contributions from the unknown higher-order (UHO) terms. In this paper, using the PMC scheme-and-scale invariant series as the starting point, we suggest a novel method of using linear regression through the origin (LRTO) to fix the asymptotic form of the pQCD series, which subsequently predicts the reasonable magnitude of the one-order higher UHO-terms. As an explicit example, we apply the method to deal with the ratio $R_τ$, which has been calculated up to four-loop QCD corrections. Our results show that the LRTO method works well, demonstrating its reliability and significant predictive power for estimating the UHO-terms. Especially, we show that the scale-invariant and more convergent PMC series exhibits a much better predictive power with stability and reliability than the initial scale-dependent pQCD series.
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spellingShingle A new method for estimating unknown one-order higher QCD corrections to the perturbative series using the linear regression through the origin
Wu, Zhi-Fei
Wu, Xing-Gang
Yan, Jiang
Huang, Xu-Dong
Shen, Jian-Ming
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
It is generally believed that the QCD theory is the fundamental theory for strong interactions. Due to the asymptotic freedom at the short distances, after proper factorization, one can predict the value of high-energy physical observable by using the perturbative QCD (pQCD). It has been demonstrated that by recursively using of renormalization group equation with the help of Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC), one can eliminate conventional renormalization scheme-and-scale ambiguities existed in the initial fixed-order pQCD series. To extend the predictive power of pQCD, we are still facing the problem of how to reliably estimate the contributions from the unknown higher-order (UHO) terms. In this paper, using the PMC scheme-and-scale invariant series as the starting point, we suggest a novel method of using linear regression through the origin (LRTO) to fix the asymptotic form of the pQCD series, which subsequently predicts the reasonable magnitude of the one-order higher UHO-terms. As an explicit example, we apply the method to deal with the ratio $R_τ$, which has been calculated up to four-loop QCD corrections. Our results show that the LRTO method works well, demonstrating its reliability and significant predictive power for estimating the UHO-terms. Especially, we show that the scale-invariant and more convergent PMC series exhibits a much better predictive power with stability and reliability than the initial scale-dependent pQCD series.
title A new method for estimating unknown one-order higher QCD corrections to the perturbative series using the linear regression through the origin
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05131