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Charm Quark Mass from Inclusive Semileptonic B Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

The MSbar charm quark mass is determined to be m_c(m_c)=1224+-17+-54 MeV from a global fit to inclusive B meson decay data, where the first error is experimental, and includes the uncertainty in alpha_s, and the second is an estimate of theoretical uncertainties in the computation. We discuss the implications of the pole mass renormalon in the determination of m_c.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0509195,
  title  = {Charm Quark Mass from Inclusive Semileptonic B Decays},
  author = {Andre H. Hoang and Aneesh V. Manohar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0509195},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 tables; revtex4. References added, minor changes; version to appear in PLB