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Large-order Behaviour due to Ultraviolet Renormalons in QCD

M. Beneke, V. M. Braun, N. Kivel

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9703389

Abstract

Ultraviolet renormalons, contrary to their infrared counterparts, lead to a universal contribution to the large-order behaviour of perturbative expansions in QCD. In this letter, we determine nature of the leading ultraviolet renormalon singularity for the inclusive hadroproduction cross section in e+ e- annihilation, for hadronic τ decays and the moments of deep-inelastic scattering structure functions. We comment on the relevance of ultraviolet renormalons to estimates in low orders of perturbation theory.

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