Renormalons and multiloop estimates in scalar correlators: Higgs decay and quark mass sum rules

The single renormalon-chain contribution to the correlator of scalar currents in QCD is calculated in the MS -scheme in the limit of a large number of fermions, N f . At n -loop order we find that in the MS -scheme the factorial growth of the perturbative coefficients due to renormalons takes over almost immediately in the Euclidean region. The essential differences between the large-order growth of perturbative coefficients in the present scalar case, and in the previously-studied vector case are analysed. In the timelike region a stabilization of the corresponding perturbative series for the imaginary part, with n -loop behaviour S n /[ log (s/Λ 2 )] n−1 , where S n is essentially constant for n≤6 , is observed. Only for n≥7 does one discern the factorial growth and alternations of sign. We use the new all-orders results to scrutinize the performance of multi-loop estimates, using a large- β 0 =(11N c −2N f )/12 approximation, the so-called “naive nonabelianization” procedure, and within the effective charges approach. The asymptotic behaviour of perturbative coefficients, in both large- N f and large- N c limits, is analysed both in the spacelike and timelike regions. A contour-improved resummation technique in the timelike region is developed. Some subtleties connected with scheme-dependence are analysed, and illustrated using results in the MS - and V -schemes. The all-orders series under investigation are summed up with the help of the Borel resummation method. The results obtained are relevant to the analysis of the theoretical uncertainties in the 4-loop extractions of the running and invariant s -quark masses from QCD sum rules, and in calculations of the Higgs boson decay width into a quark–antiquark pair.

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Renormalons
QCD perturbative series
Resummation of the effects of analytical continuation
quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
renormalization: renormalon
current: correlation function

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