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QCD static force in gradient flow

delete2022-01-28
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Nora Brambilla *
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Hee Sok Chung
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Antonio Vairo
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Xiang-Peng Wang
DOI:10.1007/JHEP01(2022)184delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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We compute the QCD static force and potential using gradient flow at next-to-leading order in the strong coupling. The static force is the spatial derivative of the static potential: it encodes the QCD interaction at both short and long distances. While on the one side the static force has the advantage of being free of the O(A(QCD)) renormalon affecting the static potential when computed in perturbation theory, on the other side its direct lattice QCD computation suffers from poor convergence. The convergence can be improved by using gradient flow, where the gauge fields in the operator definition of a given quantity are replaced by flowed fields at flow time t, which effectively smear the gauge fields over a distance of order root t, while they reduce to the QCD fields in the limit t -> 0. Based on our next-to-leading order calculation, we explore the properties of the static force for arbitrary values of t, as well as in the t -> 0 limit, which may be useful for lattice QCD studies.
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NLO Computations

Journal

Journal of High Energy Physics cover
Journal of High Energy Physics
IF:
5.5
Papers:
3.9W
Citations:
13.7W

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Technical University of Munich
Scholars:
5.2W
Papers: 3.9W
Citations: 6.2W