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Convergence and Gauge Dependence Properties of the Resummed One-loop Quark-Quark Scattering Amplitude in Perturbative QCD

J. H. Field

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9811399

Abstract

The one-loop QCD effective charge αseff for quark-quark scattering is derived by diagrammatic resummation of the one-loop amplitude using an arbitary covariant gauge. Except for the particular choice of gauge parameter ξ= -3, αseff is found to increase with increasing physical scale, Q, as Q or 2 Q. For ξ= -3, αseff decreases with increasing Q and satisfies a renormalisation group equation. Also, except for the case ξ= 19/9, convergence radii of geometric series are found to impose upper limits on Q.

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