A quark mass definition adequate for threshold problems

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Abstract

Recent calculations of heavy quark cross sections near threshold at next-to-next-to-leading order have found second-order corrections as large as first-order ones. We analyse long-distance contributions to the heavy quark potential in momentum and coordinate space and demonstrate that long-distance contributions in momentum space are suppressed as Λ2QCD/q2. We then show that the long-distance sensitivity of order ΛQCDr introduced by the Fourier transform to coordinate space cancels to all orders in perturbation theory with long-distance contributions to the heavy quark pole mass. This leads us to define a subtraction scheme - the 'potential subtraction scheme' - in which large corrections to the heavy quark potential and the 'potential-subtracted' quark mass are absent. We compute the two-loop relation of the potential-subtracted quark mass to the MS quark mass. We anticipate that threshold calculations expressed in terms of the scheme introduced here exhibit improved convergence properties.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)115-125
Number of pages11
JournalPhysics Letters B
Volume434
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 Aug 1998
Externally publishedYes

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