Borel-Laplace Sum Rules with $\tau$ decay data, using OPE with improved anomalous dimensions

TL;DR

This paper refines QCD sum rule analysis of tau decay data by incorporating improved anomalous dimensions and a new V-channel data set, leading to more precise determination of the strong coupling constant.

Contribution

It introduces an improved renormalon-motivated construction of the Adler function with updated anomalous dimensions and extends the analysis to include new V-channel data.

Findings

Precise extraction of _s(m_ au^2) = 0.3169^{+0.0070}_{-0.0096}

Updated analysis with new V-channel data

Enhanced theoretical modeling of the Adler function

Abstract

We perform numerical analysis of double-pinched Borel-Laplace QCD sum rules for the strangeless semihadronic $\tau$-decay data. The $D=0$ contribution to the theoretical contour integral in the sum rules is evaluated by the (truncated) Fixed Order perturbation theory method (FO) and by the Principal Value (PV) of the Borel integration. We use for the full Adler function the Operator Product Expansion (OPE) with the terms $\sim \langle O_D \rangle$ of dimension $D=2 n$ where $2 \leq n \leq 5$ for the (V+A)-channel, and $2 \leq n \leq 7$ for the V-channel data. In our previous works [1,2], only the (V+A)-channel data was analysed. In this work, the analysis of a new set of V-channel data is performed as well. Further, a renormalon-motivated construction of the $D=0$ part of the Adler function is improved in the $u=3$ infrared renormalon sector, by involving the recently known information on the two principal noninteger values $k^{(j)}=\gamma^{(1)}(O_6^{(j)})/\beta_0$ of the effective leading-order anomalous dimensions. Additionally, the OPE of the Adler function has now the D=6 contribution with the principal anomalous dimension ($\sim \alpha_s^{k^{(1)}}$), and terms of higher dimension (with zero anomalous dimension). Cross-checks of the obtained extracted values of $\alpha_s$ and of the condensates were performed by reproduction of the (central) experimental values of several double-pinched momenta $a^{(2,n)}$. The averaged final extracted values of the (MSbar) coupling are: $\alpha_s(m_{\tau}^2) = 0.3169^{+0.0070}_{-0.0096}$, corresponding to $\alpha_s(M_Z^2)=0.1183^{+0.0009}_{-0.0012}$.