Strange quark mass from finite energy QCD sum rules to five loops

Dec, 2007
18 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 05 (2008) 020
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Report number:
  • UCT-TP-270-07,
  • MZ-TH-07-18

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Abstract: (arXiv)
The strange quark mass is determined from a new QCD Finite Energy Sum Rule (FESR) optimized to reduce considerably the systematic uncertainties arising from the hadronic resonance sector. As a result, the main uncertainty in this determination is due to the value of ΛQCD\Lambda_{QCD}. The correlator of axial-vector divergences is used in perturbative QCD to five-loop order, including quark and gluon condensate contributions, in the framework of both Fixed Order (FOPT), and Contour Improved Perturbation Theory (CIPT). The latter exhibits very good convergence, leading to a remarkably stable result in the very wide range s0=1.04.0GeV2s_0 = 1.0 - 4.0 {GeV}^2, where s0s_0 is the radius of the integration contour in the complex energy (squared) plane. The value of the strange quark mass in this framework at a scale of 2 GeV is ms(2GeV)=95±5(111±6)MeVm_s(2 {GeV}) = 95 \pm 5 (111 \pm 6) {MeV} for ΛQCD=420(330)MeV\Lambda_{QCD} = 420 (330) {MeV}, respectively.
  • Sum Rules
  • QCD
  • quark masses