Non-perturbative renormalization by decoupling

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel non-perturbative method for determining the QCD coupling by combining heavy quark computations at low energy scales with pure gauge theory ratios, enabling precise strong coupling measurements.

Contribution

It presents a new strategy for non-perturbative renormalization in QCD, utilizing finite volume schemes and heavy quark decoupling to improve coupling determination accuracy.

Findings

Demonstrated the feasibility of the method for Nf=3 QCD.

Achieved a precise determination of the strong coupling constant.

Showed the general applicability of the approach to other renormalization problems.

Abstract

We propose a new strategy for the determination of the QCD coupling. It relies on a coupling computed in QCD with $N_{\rm f} \geq 3$ degenerate heavy quarks at a low energy scale $\mu_{\rm dec}$, together with a non-perturbative determination of the ratio $\Lambda/\mu_{\rm dec}$ in the pure gauge theory. We explore this idea using a finite volume renormalization scheme for the case of $N_{\rm f} = 3$ QCD, demonstrating that a precise value of the strong coupling $\alpha_s$ can be obtained. The idea is quite general and can be applied to solve other renormalization problems, using finite or infinite volume intermediate renormalization schemes.