Heavy quark masses from step-scaling
Abstract
We present a determination of the charm- and bottom-quark masses using the heavy-quark step-scaling strategy. Renormalization is performed in small volumes where relativistic bottom quarks can be simulated directly. A sequence of finite-volume simulations connects this calculation to large-volume CLS ensembles, where simulations at physical light and strange quark masses provide reliable control over low-energy hadronic physics. In all but the smallest volume, the B-scale is reached by interpolating between relativistic heavy-quark data and the static limit. The resulting quark masses are obtained with good precision, with subdominant systematic uncertainties that differ from, and thus complement, those of standard large-volume determinations.
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@article{arxiv.2603.25295,
title = {Heavy quark masses from step-scaling},
author = {Simon Kuberski and Alessandro Conigli and Patrick Fritzsch and Antoine Gérardin and Jochen Heitger and Gregorio Herdoíza and Carlos Pena and Hubert Simma and Rainer Sommer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.25295},
year = {2026}
}
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10 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the 42nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2025), TIFR Mumbai, India, 2025