Determination of $Λ_{\bar{MS}}$ at five loops from holographic QCD

Abstract

The recent determination of the $β$--function of the QCD running coupling $α_{\overline{MS}}(Q^2)$ to 5-loops{\color{blue},} provides a verification of the convergence of a novel method for determining the fundamental QCD parameter $Λ_s$ based on the Light-Front Holographic approach to nonperturbative QCD. The new 5-loop analysis, together with improvements in determining the holographic QCD nonperturbative scale parameter $κ$ from hadronic spectroscopy, leads to an improved precision of the value of $Λ_s$ in the ${\overline{MS}}$ scheme close to a factor of two; we find $Λ^{(3)}_{\overline{MS}}=0.339\pm0.019$ GeV for $n_{f}=3$, in excellent agreement with the world average, $Λ_{\overline{MS}}^{(3)}=0.332\pm0.017$ GeV. We also discuss the constraints imposed on the scale dependence of the strong coupling in the nonperturbative domain by superconformal quantum mechanics and its holographic embedding in anti-de Sitter space.

16 pages, 4 Figures. Published version