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Quark masses using twisted mass fermion gauge ensembles

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2021-11-03 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present a calculation of the up, down, strange and charm quark masses performed within the lattice QCD framework. We use the twisted mass fermion action and carry out simulations that include in the sea two light mass-degenerate quarks, as well as the strange and charm quarks. In the analysis we use gauge ensembles simulated at three values of the lattice spacing and with light quarks that correspond to pion masses in the range from 350 MeV to the physical value, while the strange and charm quark masses are tuned approximately to their physical values. We use several quantities to set the scale in order to check for finite lattice spacing effects and in the continuum limit we get compatible results. The quark mass renormalization is carried out non-perturbatively using the RI'-MOM method converted into the MS\overline{\rm MS} scheme. For the determination of the quark masses we use physical observables from both the meson and the baryon sectors, obtaining mud=3.636(66)(57+60)m_{ud} = 3.636(66)(^{+60}_{-57})~MeV and ms=98.7(2.4)(3.2+4.0)m_s = 98.7(2.4)(^{+4.0}_{-3.2})~MeV in the MS(2GeV)\overline{\rm MS}(2\,{\rm GeV}) scheme and mc=1036(17)(8+15)m_c = 1036(17)(^{+15}_{-8})~MeV in the MS(3GeV)\overline{\rm MS}(3\,{\rm GeV}) scheme, where the first errors are statistical and the second ones are combinations of systematic errors. For the quark mass ratios we get ms/mud=27.17(32)(38+56)m_s / m_{ud} = 27.17(32)(^{+56}_{-38}) and mc/ms=11.48(12)(19+25)m_c / m_s = 11.48(12)(^{+25}_{-19}).

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@article{arxiv.2104.13408,
  title  = {Quark masses using twisted mass fermion gauge ensembles},
  author = {C. Alexandrou and S. Bacchio and G. Bergner and M. Constantinou and M. Di Carlo and P. Dimopoulos and J. Finkenrath and E. Fiorenza and R. Frezzotti and M. Garofalo and K. Hadjiyiannakou and B. Kostrzewa and G. Koutsou and K. Jansen and V. Lubicz and M. Mangin-Brinet and F. Manigrasso and G. Martinelli and E. Papadiofantous and F. Pittler and G. C. Rossi and F. Sanfilippo and S. Simula and C. Tarantino and A. Todaro and C. Urbach and U. Wenger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.13408},
  year   = {2021}
}

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37 pages, 23 figures, 24 tables. One reference added

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