Towards unifying perturbative and Holographic Light-Front QCD via holomorphic coupling

Abstract

We construct a QCD coupling ${\mathcal{A}}(Q^2)$ in the Effective Charge (ECH) scheme of the canonical part $d(Q^2)$ of the (inelastic) polarised Bjorken Sum Rule (BSR) ${\overline \Gamma}_1^{{\rm p-n}}(Q^2)$. In the perturbative domain, the coupling ${\mathcal{A}}(Q^2)$ practically coincides with the perturbative coupling $a(Q^2)$ [$\equiv \alpha_s(Q^2)/\pi$] in the four-loop ECH renormalisation scheme. In the deep infrared (IR) regime, ${\mathcal{A}}(Q^2)$ behaves as suggested by the Holographic Light-Front QCD up to the second derivative. Furthermore, in contrast to its perturbative counterpart $a(Q^2)$, the coupling ${\mathcal{A}}(Q^2)$ is holomorphic in the entire complex $Q^2$-plane with the exception of the negative semiaxis, reflecting the holomorphic properties of the BSR observable $d(Q^2)$ [or: ${\overline \Gamma}_1^{{\rm p-n}}(Q^2)$] as dictated by the general principles of the Quantum Field Theory. It turns out that the obtained coupling, used as ECH, reproduces quite well the experimental data for ${\overline \Gamma}_1^{{\rm p-n}}(Q^2)$ in the entire $N_f=3$ regime $0 < Q^2 \lesssim 5 \ {\rm GeV}^2$.