Strange quark mass from Finite Energy QCD sum rules to five loops
Abstract
The strange quark mass is determined from a new QCD Finite Energy Sum Rule (FESR) optimized to reduce considerably the systematic uncertainties arising from the hadronic resonance sector. As a result, the main uncertainty in this determination is due to the value of . The correlator of axial-vector divergences is used in perturbative QCD to five-loop order, including quark and gluon condensate contributions, in the framework of both Fixed Order (FOPT), and Contour Improved Perturbation Theory (CIPT). The latter exhibits very good convergence, leading to a remarkably stable result in the very wide range , where is the radius of the integration contour in the complex energy (squared) plane. The value of the strange quark mass in this framework at a scale of 2 GeV is for , respectively.
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@article{arxiv.0712.0768,
title = {Strange quark mass from Finite Energy QCD sum rules to five loops},
author = {Cesareo A. Dominguez and Nasrallah F. Nasrallah and Raoul Röntsch and Karl Schilcher},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.0768},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Additional comments added at the end of the Conclusions, and one extra reference is given. A note added in proof uses the most recent determination of Lambda_QCD from ALEPH to narrow down the prediction