Strong coupling constant from moments of quarkonium correlators revisited

We revisit previous determination of the strong coupling constant from moments of quarkonium correlators in (2+1)-flavor QCD. We use previously calculated moments obtained with Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action for five different quark masses and several lattice spacings. We perform a careful continuum extrapolations of the moments and from the comparison of these to the perturbative result we determine the QCD Lambda parameter, $\Lambda_{\overline{MS}}^{n_f=3}=332 \pm 17 \pm 2(scale)$ MeV. This corresponds to $\alpha_s^{n_f=5}(\mu=M_Z)=0.1177(12)$.
Comment: 24 pages, 6 figures; data of Figs. 2-4 among the source files; primary data (figs. 1 and 6) available through arXiv:1901.06424)