title: Bound-state approach to the QCD coupling constant at low-energy scales.
abstract: We exploit theoretical results on the meson spectrum within the framework of a Bethe-Salpeter (BS) formalism adjusted for QCD, in order to extract an experimental coupling alpha(s)exp (Q2) below 1 GeV by comparison with the data. Our results for alpha(s)exp (Q2) exhibit a good agreement with the infrared safe analytic perturbation theory (APT) coupling from 1 GeV down to 200 MeV. As a main result, we claim that the combined BS-APT theoretical scheme provides us with a rather satisfactory correlated understanding of very high- and low-energy phenomena.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano and INFN, Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baldicchi
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Nesterenko
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Prosperi
authors.forename: D V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Shirkov
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Simolo