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Title: Nonperturbative QCD Coupling and its $$\beta$$-function from Light-Front Holography

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
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  1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Costa Rica, San Jose (Costa Rica)
  3. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)

The light-front holographic mapping of classical gravity in AdS space, modified by a positive-sign dilaton background, leads to a non-perturbative effective coupling $$\alpha_s^{AdS}(Q^2)$$. It agrees with hadron physics data extracted from different observables, such as the effective charge defined by the Bjorken sum rule, as well as with the predictions of models with built-in confinement and lattice simulations. It also displays a transition from perturbative to nonperturbative conformal regimes at a momentum scale $$ \sim 1$$ GeV. The resulting $$\beta$$-function appears to capture the essential characteristics of the full $$\beta$$-function of QCD, thus giving further support to the application of the gauge/gravity duality to the confining dynamics of strongly coupled QCD. Commensurate scale relations relate observables to each other without scheme or scale ambiguity. In this paper we extrapolate these relations to the nonperturbative domain, thus extending the range of predictions based on $$\alpha_s^{AdS}(Q^2)$$.

Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-06OR23177
OSTI ID:
979912
Report Number(s):
JLAB-PHY-10-1128; DOE/OR/23177-1142; PRVDAQ; TRN: US1003405
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 81, Issue 9; ISSN 1550-7998
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 157 works
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