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Y. Sumino

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Static QCD Potential at r < 1/Lambda_QCD: Perturbative expansion and operator-product expansion

We analyze the static QCD potential V_QCD(r) in the distance region 0.1 fm < r < 1 fm using perturbative QCD and OPE as basic theoretical tools. We assemble theoretical developments up to date and perform a solid and accurate analysis. The analysis consists of 3 major steps: (I) We study large-order behavior of the perturbative series of V_QCD(r) analytically. (II) In the frame of OPE, we define two types of renormalization schemes for the leading Wilson coefficient. (III) We compare numerically perturbative predictions of the Wilson coefficient and lattice computations of V_QCD(r). We perform fits to simultaneously determine non-perturbative contribution and the relation between lattice scale and Lambda_MSbar. (Short version)

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Perturbative QCD Potential and String Tension

The leading non-perturbative contribution to the static QCD potential at r << 1/Lambda_QCD is known to be O(r^2) in operator-product expansion. It indicates that a "Coulomb+linear" potential at r <~ 1/Lambda_QCD is included in the perturbative QCD prediction of the potential. It was shown that this is indeed the case, and the "Coulomb+linear" potential has been systematically computed up to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic order, in terms of the Lambda parameter in the MSbar scheme (Lambda_MSbar). We review the present status of the perturbative prediction for the QCD potential, which takes into account the theoretical breakthrough that took place around 1998.

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"Coulomb+linear" form of the static QCD potential in operator-product-expansion

The static QCD potential is analyzed in operator-product-expansion within potential-NRQCD framework when r << 1/Lambda_{QCD}. We show that the leading short-distance contribution to the potential, defined as a perturbatively computable Wilson coefficient, can be expressed, up to O(r^2), as a ``Coulomb+linear'' potential. It coincides with the ``Coulomb+linear'' potential obtained previously from the renormalon-dominance hypothesis. Non-perturbative contributions are of order r^2 and subleading.

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Fine and Hyperfine Splittings of Charmonium and Bottomonium: An Improved Perturbative QCD Approach

We extend the formalism based on perturbative QCD that was developed in our previous work, and compute the hyperfine splittings of the bottomonium spectrum as well as the fine and hyperfine splittings of the charmonium spectrum. All the corrections up to O(alpha_s^5 m) are included in the computations. We find agreement (with respect to theoretical uncertainties) with the experimental values whenever available and give predictions for not yet observed splittings.

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Renormalon Cancellation and Perturbative QCD Potential as a Coulomb+Linear Potential

Recently evidence has been found that the perturbative QCD potential agrees well with phenomenological potentials and lattice computations of the QCD potential. We review the present status of the perturbative QCD potential and theoretical backgrounds. We also report our recent analysis which shows analytically, on the basis of renormalon dominance picture, that the perturbative QCD potential quickly ``converges'' to a Coulomb-plus-linear form. The Coulomb-plus-linear potential can be computed systematically as we include more terms of the perturbative series; up to three-loop running (our current best knowledge), it shows a convergence towards lattice results. e.g. At one-loop running, the linear potential is sigma*r with sigma = (2*pi*C_F/beta0) Lambda_MSbar^2.

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Comparing the QCD potential in Perturbative QCD and Lattice QCD at large distances

We compare the perturbatively calculated QCD potential to that obtained from lattice calculations in the theory without light quark flavours. We examine E_tot(r) = 2 m_pole + V_QCD(r) by re-expressing it in the MSbar mass m = m^MSbar(m^MSbar) and by choosing specific prescriptions for fixing the scale mu (dependent on r and m). By adjusting m so as to maximise the range of convergence, we show that perturbative and lattice calculations agree up to 3*r_0 ~ 7.5 GeV^-1 (r_0 is the Sommer scale) within the uncertainty of order Lambda^3 r^2.

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QCD potential as a "Coulomb-plus-linear" potential

We show analytically that the QCD potential can be expressed, up to an O(Lambda_QCD^3 r^2) uncertainty, as the sum of a ``Coulomb'' potential (with log corrections at short distances) and a linear potential, within an approximation based on perturbative expansion in alpha_S and the renormalon dominance picture. The expansion of V_QCD(r) is truncated at O(alpha_S^N) [N = 6 pi/(beta_0 alpha_S)], where the term becomes minimal according to the estimate by NLO renormalon, and is studied for N >> 1. Analytic expressions for the linear potential are obtained in some cases.

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Top mass determination and O (alpha_S^5 m) correction to toponium 1S energy level

Recently the full O(alpha_S^5 m, alpha_S^5 m log(alpha_S)) correction to the heavy quarkonium 1S energy level has been computed (except the a_3-term in the QCD potential). We point out that the full correction (including the log(alpha_S)-term) is approximated well by the large-beta_0 approximation. Based on the assumption that this feature holds up to higher orders, we discuss why the top quark pole mass cannot be determined to better than O(Lambda_{QCD}) accuracy at a future e^+e^- collider, while the MS-bar mass can be determined to about 40 MeV accuracy (provided the 4-loop MSbar-pole mass relation will be computed in due time).

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Improved Perturbative QCD Approach to the Bottomonium Spectrum

Recently it has been shown that the gross structure of the bottomonium spectrum is reproduced reasonably well within the non-relativistic boundstate theory based on perturbative QCD. In that calculation, however, the fine splittings and the S-P level splittings are predicted to be considerably narrower than the corresponding experimental values. We investigate the bottomonium spectrum within a specific framework based on perturbative QCD, which incorporates all the corrections up to O(alpha_S^5 m_b) and O(alpha_S^4 m_b), respectively, in the computations of the fine splittings and the S-P splittings. We find that the agreement with the experimental data for the fine splittings improves drastically due to an enhancement of the wave functions close to the origin as compared to the Coulomb wave functions. The agreement of the S-P splittings with the experimental data also becomes better. We find that natural scales of the fine splittings and the S-P splittings are larger than those of the boundstates themselves. On the other hand, the predictions of the level spacings between consecutive principal quantum numbers depend rather strongly on the scale mu of the operator \propto C_A/(m_b r^2). The agreement of the whole spectrum with the experimental data is much better than the previous predictions when mu \simeq 3-4 GeV for alpha_S(M_Z)=0.1181. There seems to be a phenomenological preference for some suppression mechanism for the above operator.

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Off-shell Suppression of Renormalons in Non-relativistic QCD Boundstates

We study an effect of the off-shellness of the quark and antiquark inside a heavy quarkonium system on IR renormalons contained in the perturbative computations of the quarkonium energy levels. We demonstrate that, when the off-shellness p_Q^2 -m_Q^2 \sim alpha_S^2 m_Q^2 is larger than m_Q Lambda_QCD, renormalons in the energy levels as calculated in perturbative QCD are suppressed by a factor Lambda_QCD/alpha_S^2 m_Q as compared to those in 2 m_pole + V_QCD(r). In this case the residual O(Lambda_QCD^4) renormalon has the same dimension as that of the leading gluon-condensate contribution.

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Perturbative QCD Potential, Renormalon Cancellation and Phenomenological Potentials

We examine the total energy E_tot(r) = 2 m_pole + V_QCD(r) of the b\bar b system within perturbative QCD up to O(α_S^3). We extend a previous analysis by incorporating effects of the non-zero charm-quark mass in loops. We find that, once the renormalon cancellation is performed, E_tot(r) agrees well with typical phenomenological potentials for heavy quarkonia at distances 0.5 GeV^-1 ~< r ~< 3 GeV^-1. We also examine the perturbative predictions for E_tot(r) of other heavy quarkonium systems. Whenever stable predictions are obtained, they agree with each other up to an r-independent constant.

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A Connection Between The Perturbative QCD Potential and Phenomenological Potentials

When the cancellation of the leading renormalon contributions is incorporated, the total energy of a b bbar system, E_{tot,bbbar}(r) = 2 m_{pole,b} + V_QCD(r), agrees well with the potentials used in phenomenological models for heavy quarkonia in the range 0.5 GeV^-1 < r < 3 GeV^-1. We provide a connection between the conventional potential-model approaches to the quarkonium spectroscopy and the recent computation based on perturbative QCD.

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Quarkonium spectroscopy and perturbative QCD: massive quark-loop effects

We study the spectra of the bottomonium and B_c states within perturbative QCD up to order alpha_s^4. The O(Lambda_QCD) renormalon cancellation between the static potential and the pole mass is performed in the epsilon-expansion scheme. We extend our previous analysis by including the (dominant) effects of non-zero charm-quark mass in loops up to the next-to-leading non-vanishing order epsilon^3. We fix the b-quark MSbar mass $\bar{m}_b \equiv m_b^{\bar{\rm MS}}(m_b^{\bar{\rm MS}})$ on Upsilon(1S) and compute the higher levels. The effect of the charm mass decreases $\bar{m}_b$ by about 11 MeV and increases the n=2 and n=3 levels by about 70--100 MeV and 240--280 MeV, respectively. We provide an extensive quantitative analysis. The size of non-perturbative and higher order contributions is discussed by comparing the obtained predictions with the experimental data. An agreement of the perturbative predictions and the experimental data depends crucially on the precise value (inside the present error) of alpha_s(M_Z). We obtain $m_b^{\bar{\rm MS}}(m_b^{\bar{\rm MS}}) = 4190 \pm 20 \pm 25 \pm 3 ~ {\rm MeV}$.

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Quarkonium Spectroscopy and Perturbative QCD: A New Perspective

We report new aspects of the recent theoretical progress in heavy quarkonium physics. (1) Contrary to wide beliefs, the gross structure of the bottomonium spectrum is described well by the non-relativistic boundstate theory based on perturbative QCD. (2) This leads to a new physical picture of the bottomonium states: the boundstate mass is composed mainly of the self-energies of b and bbar accumulated inside the boundstate. (3) A connection to the conventional phenomenological potential-model approaches is provided.

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Quarkonium Spectroscopy and Perturbative QCD: A New Perspective

We study the energy spectrum of bottomonium in perturbative QCD, taking alpha_s(Mz)=0.1181 +/- 0.0020 as input and fixing m_b^{MSbar}(m_b^{MSbar}) on the Upsilon(1S) mass. Contrary to wide beliefs, perturbative QCD reproduces reasonably well the gross structure of the spectrum as long as the coupling constant remains smaller than one. We perform a detailed analysis and discuss the size of non-perturbative effects. A new qualitative picture on the structure of the bottomonium spectrum is provided. The lowest-lying (c,cbar) and (b,cbar) states are also examined.

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