TY - JOUR
T1 - Operator product expansion, heavy quarks, QCD duality and its violations
AU - Chibisov, B.
AU - Dikeman, R. D.
AU - Shifman, M.
AU - Uraltsev, N. G.
PY - 1997/4/30
Y1 - 1997/4/30
N2 - The quark(gluon)-hadron duality constitutes a basis for the theoretical treatment of a wide range of inclusive processes - from hadronic τ decays and Re+e- to semileptonic and nonleptonic decay rates of heavy flavor hadrons. A theoretical analysis of these processes is carried out by using the operator product expansion in the Euclidean domain, with subsequent analytic continuation to the Minkowski domain. We formulate the notion of the quark(gluon)-hadron duality in quantitative terms, then classify various contributions leading to violations of duality. A prominent role in the violations of duality seems to belong to the so-called exponential terms which, conceptually, may represent the (truncated) tail of the power series. A qualitative model, relying on an instanton background field, is developed, allowing one to get an estimate of the exponential terms. We then discuss a number of applications, mostly from heavy quark physics.
AB - The quark(gluon)-hadron duality constitutes a basis for the theoretical treatment of a wide range of inclusive processes - from hadronic τ decays and Re+e- to semileptonic and nonleptonic decay rates of heavy flavor hadrons. A theoretical analysis of these processes is carried out by using the operator product expansion in the Euclidean domain, with subsequent analytic continuation to the Minkowski domain. We formulate the notion of the quark(gluon)-hadron duality in quantitative terms, then classify various contributions leading to violations of duality. A prominent role in the violations of duality seems to belong to the so-called exponential terms which, conceptually, may represent the (truncated) tail of the power series. A qualitative model, relying on an instanton background field, is developed, allowing one to get an estimate of the exponential terms. We then discuss a number of applications, mostly from heavy quark physics.
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U2 - 10.1142/S0217751X97001316
DO - 10.1142/S0217751X97001316
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000527298
SN - 0217-751X
VL - 12
SP - 2075
EP - 2133
JO - International Journal of Modern Physics A
JF - International Journal of Modern Physics A
IS - 11
ER -