DETERMINATION OF THE STRONG COUPLING-CONSTANT FROM THE CHARMONIUM SPECTRUM

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ELKHADRA, AX
HOCKNEY, G
KRONFELD, AS
MACKENZIE, PB
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.729
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O4 [物理学];
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Lattice gauge theory techniques have recently achieved sufficient accuracy to permit a determination of the strong coupling constant from the 1P-1S splitting in the charmonium system, with all systematic errors estimated quantitatively. The present result is alpha(MSBAR)(5 GeV) = 0.174 +/- 0.012, or, equivalently, LAMBDA(MS)/(4) = 160(-37)+47 MeV (MSBAR denotes the modified minimal subtraction scheme).
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