TY - JOUR AU - Pich, A. AU - Rodriguez-Sanchez, A. PY - 2022 DA - 2022// TI - Violations of quark-hadron duality in low-energy determinations of alpha(s) T2 - J. High Energy Phys. JO - Journal of High Energy Physics SP - 145 EP - 42pp VL - 07 IS - 7 PB - Springer KW - The Strong Coupling KW - Semi-Leptonic Decays KW - Specific QCD Phenomenology KW - Chiral Lagrangian AB - Using the spectral functions measured in tau decays, we investigate the actual numerical impact of duality violations on the extraction of the strong coupling. These effects are tiny in the standard alpha(s)(m(tau)(2)) determinations from integrated distributions of the hadronic spectrum with pinched weights, or from the total tau hadronic width. The pinched-weight factors suppress very efficiently the violations of duality, making their numerical effects negligible in comparison with the larger perturbative uncertainties. However, combined fits of alpha(s) and duality-violation parameters, performed with non-protected weights, are subject to large systematic errors associated with the assumed modelling of duality-violation effects. These uncertainties have not been taken into account in the published analyses, based on specific models of quark-hadron duality. SN - 1029-8479 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07587 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2022)145 DO - 10.1007/JHEP07(2022)145 LA - English N1 - WOS:000831256400009 ID - Pich+Rodriguez-Sanchez2022 ER -