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53 - Light and heavy quark masses, etc

from Part X - QCD spectral sum rules

Stephan Narison
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Université de Montpellier II
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We review the present status for the determinations of the light and heavy quark masses, the light quark chiral condensate and the decay constants of light and heavy-light (pseudo)scalar mesons from QCD spectral sum rules (QSSR). Bounds on the light quark running masses at 2 GeV are found to be (see Tables 53.1 and 53.2): 6 MeV < (d + u)(2) < 11 MeV and 71 MeV < s(2) < 148 MeV. The agreement of the ratio ms/(mu + md) = 24.2 in Eq. (53.45) from pseudoscalar sum rules with the one (24.4 ± 1.5) from ChPT indicates the consistency of the pseudoscalar sum rule approach. QSSR predictions from different channels for the light quark running masses lead to (see Section 53.9.3): s(2) = (117.4 ± 23.4) MeV, (;d + u)(2) = (10.1 ± 1.8) MeV, (du)(2) = (2.8 ± 0.6) MeV with the corresponding values of the RG invariant masses. The different QSSR predictions for the heavy quark masses lead to the running masss values: c(c) = (1.23 ± 0.05) GeV and b(b) = (4.24 ± 0.06) GeV (see Tables 53.5 and 53.6), from which one can extract the scale independent ratio mb/ms = 48.8 ± 9.8.

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QCD as a Theory of Hadrons
From Partons to Confinement
, pp. 572 - 614
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2004

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