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Bottom Quark Mass from Upsilon Mesons: Charm Mass Effects

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The effects of the finite charm quark mass on bottom quark mass determinations from Υ\Upsilon sum rules are examined in detail. The charm quark mass effects are calculated at next-to-next-to-leading order in the non-relativistic power counting for the Υ\Upsilon sum rules and at order αs3\alpha_s^3 for the determination of the bottom MSbar mass. For the bottom 1S mass, which is extracted from the Υ\Upsilon sum rules directly, we obtain Mb1S=4.69±0.03M_b^{1S}=4.69\pm 0.03 GeV with negligible correlation to the value of the strong coupling. For the bottom MSbar mass we obtain Mˉb(Mˉb)=4.17±0.05\bar M_b(\bar M_b) = 4.17\pm 0.05 GeV taking αs(nl=5)(MZ)=0.118±0.003\alpha_s^{(n_l=5)}(M_Z)=0.118\pm 0.003 as an input. Compared with an analysis where all quarks lighter than the bottom are treated as massless, we find that the finite charm mass shifts the bottom 1S mass, Mb1SM_b^{1S}, by about -20 MeV and the MSbar mass, Mˉb(Mˉb)\bar M_b(\bar M_b), by -30 to -35 MeV.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0008102,
  title  = {Bottom Quark Mass from Upsilon Mesons: Charm Mass Effects},
  author = {A. H. Hoang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0008102},
  year   = {2007}
}

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70 pages, latex, 21 postscript figures included