Top-quark pole mass
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-09-15 v1
Abstract
The top quark decays more quickly than the strong-interaction time scale, , and might be expected to escape the effects of nonperturbative QCD. Nevertheless, the top-quark pole mass, like the mass of a stable heavy quark, is ambiguous by an amount proportional to .
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9612329,
title = {Top-quark pole mass},
author = {Martin C. Smith and Scott S. Willenbrock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9612329},
year = {2009}
}
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9 pages, LaTeX