Precise charm to strange mass ratio and light quark masses from full lattice QCD
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-04-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract
By using a single formalism to handle charm, strange and light valence quarks in full lattice QCD for the first time, we are able to determine ratios of quark masses to 1%. For we obtain 11.85(16), an order of magnitude more precise than the current PDG average. Combined with 1% determinations of the charm quark mass now possible this gives 92.4(1.5) MeV. The MILC result for yields = 3.40(7) MeV for the average of and quark masses.
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@article{arxiv.0910.3102,
title = {Precise charm to strange mass ratio and light quark masses from full lattice QCD},
author = {C. T. H. Davies and C. McNeile and K. Y. Wong and E. Follana and R. Horgan and K. Hornbostel and G. P. Lepage and J. Shigemitsu and H. Trottier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3102},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures. Version accepted by Physical Review Letters. Changes include modifying the title, using the MILC value for m_s/m_l which changes slightly the resulting up and down quark masses and their average, adding some references and making other small adjustments to the text for space reasons.