====== TTP99-42 Quark mass effects to \sigma(e^+e^- -> hadrons) at O(\alpha_s^3) ====== hadrons) at O(\alpha_s^3) > The calculation of the quartic mass terms at order \alpha_s^3 to the hadronic R ratio is described. It is based on the operator product expansion for the quark current correlator, combined with an application of the renormalization group equation. |**K.G. Chetyrkin, R. Harlander, and J.H. Kuehn** | |** Proc. Int. Europhysics Conf. on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP99), Tampere, Finland 1999, pg. 382-384 ** | | {{preprints:1999:ttp99-42.pdf|PDF}} {{preprints:1999:ttp99-42.ps|PostScript}} [[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9910345|arXiv]] | | |