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Conformal Symmetry as a Template for QCD
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 4 Aug 2004
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The authors' main claim Conformal symmetry is broken in physical QCD; nevertheless, one can use conformal symmetry as a template, systematically correcting for its nonzero $\beta$ function as well as higher-twist effects.
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Conformal symmetry is broken in physical QCD; nevertheless, one can use conformal symmetry as a template, systematically correcting for its nonzero $\beta$ function as well as higher-twist effects. For example, commensurate scale relations which relate QCD observables to each other, such as the generalized Crewther relation, have no renormalization scale or scheme ambiguity and retain a convergent perturbative structure which reflects the underlying conformal symmetry of the classical theory. The ``conformal correspondence principle" also dictates the form of the expansion basis for hadronic distribution amplitudes. The AdS/CFT correspondence connecting superstring theory to superconformal gauge theory has important implications for hadron phenomenology in the conformal limit, including an all-orders demonstration of counting rules for hard exclusive processes as well as determining essential aspects of hadronic light-front wavefunctions. Theoretical and phenomenological evidence is now accumulating that QCD couplings based on physical observables such as tau decay become constant at small virtuality; i.e., effective charges develop an infrared fixed point in contradiction to the usual assumption of singular growth in the infrared. The near-constant behavior of effective couplings also suggests that QCD can be approximated as a conformal theory even at relatively small momentum transfer. The importance of using an analytic effective charge such as the pinch scheme for unifying the electroweak and strong couplings and forces is also emphasized.
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| s0 | Conformal symmetry is broken in physical QCD; nevertheless, one can use conformal symmetry as a template, systematically correcting for its nonzero $\beta$ function as well as higher-twist effects. | method 0.37 | 0.17 | 0.50 | asserted 0.78 |
| s1 | For example, commensurate scale relations which relate QCD observables to each other, such as the generalized Crewther relation, have no renormalization scale or scheme ambiguity and retain a convergent perturbative structure which reflects the underlying conformal symmetry of the classical theory. | contribution 0.26 | 0.19 | 0.17 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | The ``conformal correspondence principle" also dictates the form of the expansion basis for hadronic distribution amplitudes. | contribution 0.34 | 0.15 | 0.08 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | The AdS/CFT correspondence connecting superstring theory to superconformal gauge theory has important implications for hadron phenomenology in the conformal limit, including an all-orders demonstration of counting rules for hard exclusive processes as well as determining essential aspects of hadronic light-front wavefunctions. | background 0.93 | 0.11 | 0.07 | asserted 0.93 |
| s4 | Theoretical and phenomenological evidence is now accumulating that QCD couplings based on physical observables such as tau decay become constant at small virtuality; i.e., effective charges develop an infrared fixed point in contradiction to the usual assumption of singular growth in the infrared. | result 0.71 | 0.17 | 0.21 | asserted 0.66 |
| s5 | The near-constant behavior of effective couplings also suggests that QCD can be approximated as a conformal theory even at relatively small momentum transfer. | interpretation 0.97 | 0.14 | 0.19 | hedged possibility 1.00 |
| s6 | The importance of using an analytic effective charge such as the pinch scheme for unifying the electroweak and strong couplings and forces is also emphasized. | interpretation 0.56 | 0.13 | 0.09 | asserted 0.94 |
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Conformal symmetry is broken in physical QCD; nevertheless, one can use conformal symmetry as a template, systematically correcting for its nonzero $\beta$ function as well as higher-twist effects. For example, commensurate scale relations which relate QCD observables to each other, such as the generalized Crewther relation, have no renormalization scale or scheme ambiguity and retain a convergent perturbative structure which reflects the underlying conformal symmetry of the classical theory. The ``conformal correspondence principle" also dictates the form of the expansion basis for hadronic distribution amplitudes. The AdS/CFT correspondence connecting superstring theory to superconformal gauge theory has important implications for hadron phenomenology in the conformal limit, including an all-orders demonstration of counting rules for hard exclusive processes as well as determining essential aspects of hadronic light-front wavefunctions. Theoretical and phenomenological evidence is now accumulating that QCD couplings based on physical observables such as tau decay become constant at small virtuality; i.e., effective charges develop an infrared fixed point in contradiction to the usual assumption of singular growth in the infrared. The near-constant behavior of effective couplings also suggests that QCD can be approximated as a conformal theory even at relatively small momentum transfer. The importance of using an analytic effective charge such as the pinch scheme for unifying the electroweak and strong couplings and forces is also emphasized.
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Nonetheless, the facts that (i) at high $Q^2$ values $α_s (Q^2)Q^2→∞⟶ 0$ (asymptotic freedom in the ultraviolet), while (ii) at low $Q^2$ values $α_s(Q^2)/πQ^2→0⟶ 1$ (conformal window in the infrared) point to the possibility that the dynamics in the two extreme regimes of QCD, the ultraviolet [ref] , and the infrared [ref] , might be governed by the conformal symmetry, though expected to be realized in different fashions.
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