Operator product expansion, heavy quarks, QCD duality and its violations

B. Chibisov, R. D. Dikeman, M. Shifman, N. G. Uraltsev

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2075-2133
Number of pages59
JournalInternational Journal of Modern Physics A
Volume12
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 30 1997

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