Nonsinglet structure functions beyond the next-to-next-to-leading order

Feb, 2001
28 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 603 (2001) 42-68
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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