Renormalon subtracted nonrelativistic QCD for heavy hadron systems
We present a renormalon-subtracted formulation of potential nonrelativistic QCD (pNRQCD) for precision spectroscopy of heavy hadron systems, combining variational and Green's function Monte Carlo (VMC/GFMC) methods with NNLO static two- and three-body potentials. Minimal renormalon subtraction (MRS) systematically sums leading factorially growing terms, thereby stabilizing perturbative convergence and reducing renormalization-scale dependence. We tune charm and bottom quark masses to spin-averaged $1S$ quarkonium states and predict $Ω_{ccc}$, $Ω_{ccb}$, $Ω_{cbb}$, and $Ω_{bbb}$ baryon masses, as well as QCD-stable baryons containing top quarks. NNLO MRS results undershoot lattice QCD by 125--175~MeV, with fractional differences decreasing as $\sim 1/m_Q$, consistent with neglected $\mathcal{O}(1/m_Q)$ corrections. Applying these methods to unequal-mass fully-heavy tetraquarks, we determine the critical heavy-to-light mass ratio for binding and compute binding energies across the mass-ratio landscape.
Authors
- Michael L. Wagman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7670-1880)
- Andreas S. Kronfeld (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2716-1149)
- Benoît Assi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0924-3335)
- Simon Vaiva
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
- Published
- 2026-11-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/n6pm-nxzm
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Aspen Center for Physics
- Office of Science
- High Energy Physics