Abstract
The principle of maximum conformality (PMC) provides a systematic approach to solve the conventional renormalization scheme and scale ambiguities. Scale-fixed predictions of physical observables using the PMC are independent of the choice of renormalization scheme – a key requirement for renormalization group invariance. In this paper, we derive new degeneracy relations based on the renormalization group equations that involve both the usual β-function and the quark mass anomalous dimension -function. These new degeneracy relations enable improved PMC scale-setting procedures for correct magnitudes of the strong coupling constant and -running quark mass to be determined simultaneously. By using these improved PMC scale-setting procedures, the renormalization scale dependence of the -on-shell quark mass relation can be eliminated systematically. Consequently, the top-quark on-shell (or ) mass can be determined without conventional renormalization scale ambiguity. Taking the top-quark mass GeV as the input, we obtain GeV. Here, the uncertainties arise from errors combined with those from and the approximate uncertainty resulting from the uncalculated five-loop terms predicted through the Padé approximation approach.
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