We study the non-perturbative behavior of two versions of the QCD effective charge, one obtained from the pinch technique gluon self-energy, and one from the ghost-gluon vertex. Despite their distinct theoretical origin, due to a fundamental identity relating various of the ingredients appearing in their respective definitions, the two effective charges are almost identical in the entire range of physical momenta, and coincide exactly in the deep infrared, where they freeze at a common finite value. Specifically, the dressing function of the ghost propagator is related to the two form factors in the Lorentz decomposition of a certain Green's function, appearing in a variety of field-theoretic contexts. The central identity, which is valid only in the Landau gauge, is derived from the Schwinger-Dyson equations governing the dynamics of the aforementioned quantities. The renormalization procedure that preserves the validity of the identity is carried out, and various relevant kinematic limits and physically motivated approximations are studied in detail. A crucial ingredient in this analysis is the infrared finiteness of the gluon propagator, which is inextricably connected with the aforementioned freezing of the effective charges. Some important issues related to the consistent definition of the effective charge in the presence of such a gluon propagator are resolved. We finally present a detailed numerical study of a special set of Schwinger-Dyson equations, whose solutions determine the non-perturbative dynamics of the quantities composing the two effective charges.
Using the global properties of the QCD partition function we determine an all order perturbative beta function in the background gauge field method to find out that it has a simple expressions whose properties and consequences align with other recent results in the QCD literature. We further compute the non-perturbative beta functions for the coupling constant and the theta angle in the background of an instanton field with winding number $n$. We solve for the theta angle in the non-perturbative region to determine that it is approximately zero. By extrapolating to the full QCD beta functions …
Extraction of the x-dependence of the non-perturbative QCD b-quark fragmentation distribution component
利用最近在Z极记录的$e^+e^- \to b \bar{b}$事件中获得的b夸克碎裂分布的测量结果，独立于任何强子物理模型，提取了该分布的非微扰QCD分量。这种分布只取决于微扰QCD分量的定义方式。当微扰QCD分量取自部分子簇射Monte-Carlo时，非微扰QCD分量与Lund或Bowler模型的结果相当相似。当微扰QCD分量是解析NLL计算的结果时，非微扰QCD分量必须在非物理区域中扩展，因此不能用任何强子模型来描述。在目前研究的用于表征这两种情况的两个例子中，提取的非微扰QCD分布具有相同的形状，在第二种方法中被简单地转换为更高的x值，说明了解析微扰QCD方法比部分子簇射发生器更能解释更软的胶子辐射。
Applicability of Perturbative QCD to $B\to D$ Decays
我们研究了微扰QCD对$B$介子衰变为$D$介子的适用性。我们发现，当$D$介子快速反冲时，包含中间能级Sudakov效应的微扰QCD形式适用于半轻子衰变$B\to D lν$.在此基础上，我们对两体非轻子衰变$B\to Dπ$和$B\to DD_s$进行了分析.通过比较我们的预测与实验数据，我们提取的矩阵元素$|V_{cb}|=0.044$。
