QCD parameters and SM-high precisions from e+e- to Hadrons

TL;DR

This paper refines QCD parameters and Standard Model predictions using e+e- to hadrons data, sum rules, and tau decay moments, achieving improved consistency and precision in fundamental constants and lepton anomalies.

Contribution

It provides new determinations of QCD condensates, the strong coupling constant, and hadronic contributions to lepton anomalies, highlighting inconsistencies in traditional assumptions and updating key Standard Model parameters.

Findings

New values for four-quark and gluon condensates.

Precise extraction of alpha_s(M_tau) with two methods.

Updated hadronic vacuum polarization contributions.

Abstract

Using the PDG 22 compilation of the $e^+e^-\to$ Hadrons $\oplus$ the recent CMD3 data for the pion form factor and the value of gluon condensate $<\alpha_s G^2>$ from heavy quarkonia, we extract the value of the four-quark condensate : $\rho\alpha_s<\bar\psi\psi>^2= (5.98\pm 0.64)\times 10^{-4}$ GeV$^6$ and the dimension eight condensate: $d_8= (4.3\pm 3.0)\times 10^{-2}$ GeV$^8$from the ratio ${\cal R}_{10}$ of Laplace sum rules to order $\alpha_s^4$. We show the inconsistency in using at the same time the standard SVZ value of the gluon and the vacuum saturation of the four-quark condensates. Using the previous values of the four-quark and $d_8$ condensates, we re-extract $<\alpha_s G^2>$ from ${\cal R}_{10}$ to be: $(6.12\pm 0.61)\times 10^{-2}$ GeV$^4$ in perfect agreement with the one from heavy quarkonia. We also use the lowest $\tau$-like decay moment ${\cal R}_\tau^{ee}$ to extract the value of the QCD coupling $\alpha_s(M^2_\tau)$=0.3385(145)[resp. 0.3262(86)] (mean of fixed order (FO) and Contour Improved (CI) PT series) to order $\alpha_s^4$ [resp. $\alpha_s^5$] and the standard OPE. The corresponding value of the sum of the non-perturbative contribution is: $\delta_{NP}(M_\tau)=(3.74\pm 0.40)\times 10^{-2}$. Reciprocally, using $\alpha_s(M_\tau)$, $<\alpha_s G^2>$ and $d_8$ as inputs, we test the stability of the value of the four-quark condensate obtained from the lowest $\tau$-like moment. We complete our analysis by updating our previous determinations of the lowest order hadronic vacuum polarization contributions to the lepton anomalies and to $\alpha(M^2_Z)$. We obtain in Table 2 : $a_\mu\vert^{hvp}_{l.o}= (7036.5\pm 38.9)\times10^{-11}, a_\tau\vert^{hvp}_{l.o}= (3494.8\pm 24.7)\times10^{-9} $ and $\alpha(M^2_Z)=(2766.3\pm 4.5)\times 10^{-5}$. This new value of $a_\mu$ leads to: $\Delta a_\mu\equiv a_\mu^{exp}-a_\mu^{th} = (142\pm 42_{th}\pm 41_{exp})\times 10^{-11}$.