XLV International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics

Determination of alpha_s from the QCD static energy

8 Oct 2015, 11:50

25m

Oral Presentation Status of QCD Status of QCD

Speaker

Antonio Vairo (TU Munich)

Description

We present the latest determination of the strong-coupling constant from the quantum chromodynamics static energy. It comes from comparing three-loop perturbative QCD with 2+1 unqueched lattice data and provides up to date one of the most accurate low-energy determinations of alpha_s.

Presentation materials

Paper

ismd2015.pdf

Slides

alphas15.pdf