Renormalization-scale-invariant continuation of truncated QCD (QED) series -- an analysis beyond large-beta_0 approximation

Abstract

An approximation algorithm is proposed to transform truncated QCD (or QED) series for observables. The approximation is a modification of the Baker-Gammel approximants, and is independent of the renormalization scale (RScl) $μ$ -- the coupling parameter $α(μ)$ in the series and in the resulting approximants can evolve according to the perturbative renormalization group equation (RGE) to any chosen loop order. The proposed algorithm is a natural generalization of the recently proposed method of diagonal Padé approximants, the latter making the result RScl-invariant in large-$β_0$ approximation for $α(μ)$. The algorithm described below can extract large amount of information from a calculated available truncated perturbative series for an observable, by implicitly resumming large classes of diagrams.

LaTeX (REVTeX), 15 pages, minor stylistic changes, version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B