Towards QCD at Five Loops

Abstract

We report on recent progress on five-loop calculations in perturbative QCD. We discuss the computation of the perturbative quark condensate, decoupling in QCD, and the precision determination of charm and bottom quark masses. For the latter, we give some first results from a gauge-invariant subset of five-loop diagrams.

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to proceedings of the Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory conference (LL2024)