====== TTP97-11 Mass Corrections to the Vector Current Correlator ====== Three-loop QCD corrections to the vector current correlator are considered. The large momentum procedure is applied in order to evaluate mass corrections up to order $(m^2/q^2)^6$. The inclusion of the first seven terms to the ratio $R=\sigma(e^+e^-\to\mbox{hadrons})/\sigma(e^+e^-\to\mu^+\mu^-)$ leads to reliable predictions from the high energy region down to relatively close to threshold. |**K.G. Chetyrkin, R. Harlander, J.H. Kuehn, M. Steinhauser** | |** Nucl. Phys. B 503 339-353 1997 ** | | {{preprints:1997:ttp97-11.pdf|PDF}} {{preprints:1997:ttp97-11.ps|PostScript}} [[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9704222|arXiv]] | | |