On power corrections in the dispersive approach

Abstract

Power corrections in QCD (both conventional and unconventional ones arising from the ultraviolet region) are discussed within the infrared finite coupling-dispersive approach. It is shown how power corrections in Minkowskian quantities can be derived from the corresponding ones in associated Euclidean quantities through analyticity, allowing a parametrization in term of the Euclidean coupling and a renormalon-free perturbative expansion. It is argued that one should in general expect coefficients functions computed in the true non-perturbative vacuum to differ from the standard perturbative ones, even without assuming new physics. A phenomenology of $1/Q^2$ terms arising from eventual new physics of ultraviolet origin is also set-up. Models for non-perturbative contributions to the (universal) QCD coupling are suggested. Issues of renormalization scheme dependence are commented upon.

40 pages, no figures, final version, improved notation and additional comments with respect to the version published in JHEP

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