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Bernd A Kniehl1, Alexander A Penin, Antonio Pineda
1II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract:
We sum up the next-to-leading logarithmic corrections to the heavy-quarkonium hyperfine splitting, using the nonrelativistic renormalization group. On the basis of this result, we predict the mass of the eta(b) meson to be M(eta(b))=9421+/-11(th)+9-8(delta alpha(s)) MeV. The experimental measurement of M(eta(b)) with a few MeV error would be sufficient to determine alpha(s)(M(Z)) with an accuracy of +/-0.003. For the hyperfine splitting in charmonium, the use of the nonrelativistic renormalization group brings the perturbative prediction significantly closer to the experimental figure.
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