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Renormalon subtracted nonrelativistic QCD for heavy hadron systems

Benoît Assi, Andreas S. Kronfeld, Simon Vaiva, and Michael L. Wagman

Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 6 November, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/n6pm-nxzm

Abstract

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 static two- and three-body potentials through NNLO in αs (leading order in 1/mQ). 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 Ωccc, Ωccb, Ωcbb, and Ωbbb baryon masses, as well as QCD-stable baryons containing top quarks. NNLO MRS results undershoot lattice QCD by 125–175~MeV, a difference we attribute to contributions beyond the static perturbative potentials, including 1/mQ 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.

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