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Light Quark Masses from QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We study the value of the light quark masses combination mu+mdm_u+m_d in QCD using both Finite Energy Sum Rules and Laplace Sum Rules. We have performed a detailed analysis of both the perturbative QCD and the hadronic parametrization inputs needed in these Sum Rules. As main result, we obtain mu(1 GeV2)+md(1 GeV2)=(12±2.5) MeVm_u\left(1~{\rm GeV}^2\right) + m_d \left(1~{\rm GeV}^2\right) = \left(12\pm2.5\right)~{\rm MeV} for the running MS\overline{MS} masses.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9411285,
  title  = {Light Quark Masses from QCD},
  author = {Johan Bijnens and Joaquim Prades and Eduardo de Rafael},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9411285},
  year   = {2008}
}

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17 pages, LaTeX, 5 postscript figures included, uses cite.sty(included) and epsf.sty