Interaction dependence of composite fermion effective masses

We estimate the composite fermion effective mass for a general two particle potential r^{-\alpha} using exact diagonalization for polarized electrons in the lowest Landau level on a sphere. Our data for the ground state energy at filling fraction \nu=1/2 as well as estimates of the excitation gap at \nu=1/3, 2/5 and 3/7 show that m_eff \sim \alpha^{-1}.