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Average up/down, strange and charm quark masses with Nf=2 twisted mass lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-03-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present a high precision lattice calculation of the average up/down, strange and charm quark masses performed with Nf=2 twisted mass Wilson fermions. The analysis includes data at four values of the lattice spacing and pion masses as low as ~270 MeV, allowing for accurate continuum limit and chiral extrapolation. The strange and charm masses are extracted by using several methods, based on different observables: the kaon and the eta_s meson for the strange quark and the D, D_s and eta_c mesons for the charm. The quark mass renormalization is carried out non-perturbatively using the RI-MOM method. The results for the quark masses in the MSbar scheme read: m_ud(2 GeV)= 3.6(2) MeV, m_s(2 GeV)=95(6) MeV and m_c(m_c)=1.28(4) GeV. We also obtain the ratios m_s/m_ud=27.3(9) and m_c/m_s=12.0(3).

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@article{arxiv.1010.3659,
  title  = {Average up/down, strange and charm quark masses with Nf=2 twisted mass lattice QCD},
  author = {ETM Collaboration and B. Blossier and P. Dimopoulos and R. Frezzotti and V. Lubicz and M. Petschlies and F. Sanfilippo and S. Simula and C. Tarantino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.3659},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

20 pages, 5 figures. Typos corrected in eqs. (15)-(17). Version published in Phys. Rev. D