Nonsinglet structure functions beyond the next-to-next-to-leading order
Feb, 200128 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.B 603 (2001) 42-68
e-Print:
- hep-ph/0103123 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- INLO-PUB-12-00
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Abstract:
We study the evolution of the flavour non-singlet deep-inelastic structure functions F_{2,NS} and F_3 at the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N^3LO) of massless perturbative QCD. The present information on the corresponding three-loop coefficient functions is used to derive approximate expressions of these quantities which prove completely sufficient for values x > 10^{-2} of the Bjorken variable. The inclusion of the N^3LO corrections reduces the theoretical uncertainty of alpha_s determinations from non-singlet scaling violations arising from the truncation of the perturbation series to less than 1%. We also study the predictions of the soft-gluon resummation, of renormalization-scheme optimizations by the principle of minimal sensitivity (PMS) and the effective charge (ECH) method, and of the Pade' summation for the structure-function evolution kernels. The PMS, ECH and Pade' approaches are found to facilitate a reliable estimate of the corrections beyond N^3LO.Note:
- 29 pages, LaTeX, 12 eps-figures Report-no: INLO-PUB 12/00
- 12.38.Bx
- 12.38.Cy
- 13.60.Hb
- lepton nucleon: deep inelastic scattering
- neutrino nucleon: deep inelastic scattering
- charged current
- nucleon: structure function
- quantum chromodynamics: massless
- perturbation theory: higher-order
- scaling: violation
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