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The Omega- and the strange quark mass

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

Omega- correlators have been calculated on the MILC collaboration's archive of three flavor improved staggered quark lattices. The Omega- is stable under strong interactions (140 MeV below threshold). It provides a valuable consistency check on a combination of strange quark mass and lattice scale determination from other quantities. Alternatively, the Omega- mass could be used to fix the strange quark mass, which gives a check on computations of the strange quark mass based on the kaon mass.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0409129,
  title  = {The Omega- and the strange quark mass},
  author = {Doug Toussaint and C. T. H. Davies},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0409129},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Three pages, proceedings of the Lattice-04 symposium. (Corrected typographical errors)