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MSbar Charm Mass from Charmonium Sum Rules with Contour Improvement

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

A detailed error analysis is carried out for the determination of the MSbar charm quark mass mˉc(mˉc)\bar m_c(\bar m_c) from moments at order alpha_s^2 of the charm cross section in e^+e^- annihilation. To estimate the theoretical uncertainties the renormalization scale is implemented in various ways including energy-dependent functions, which lead to ``contour-improved'' predictions. We obtain mˉc(mˉc)=1.29±0.07\bar m_c(\bar m_c)=1.29\pm 0.07 GeV which contains a substantial theoretical uncertainty.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0403083,
  title  = {MSbar Charm Mass from Charmonium Sum Rules with Contour Improvement},
  author = {A. H. Hoang and M. Jamin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0403083},
  year   = {2008}
}

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13 pages, latex, 1 postscript figures included