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On the role of the quark mass thresholds in extrapolations of the running αs

Jiri Chyla

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9501289

Abstract

The accuracy of the conventional treatment of quark mass thresholds in the QCD running coupling constant αs, based on the step approximation to the β--function, is investigated. The errors of extrapolating (μ) from low energies to μ=MZ, implied by this approximation, are shown to be of the same magnitude as the typical next--to--next--to--leading order contributions to and tend to increase the resulting . The importance of the proper choice of matching points is emphasized.

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