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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 mc/msm_c/m_s 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 mˉs(2GeV)=\bar{m}_s(2{\rm GeV}) = 92.4(1.5) MeV. The MILC result for ms/ml=27.2(3)m_s/m_l = 27.2(3) yields mˉl(2GeV)\bar{m}_l(2{\rm GeV}) = 3.40(7) MeV for the average of uu and dd 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.