The Perturbative Pole Mass in QCD
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-12-30 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract
It is widely believed that the pole mass of a quark is infrared-finite and gauge-independent to all orders in perturbation theory. This seems not to have been proved in the literature. A proof is provided here.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9805215,
title = {The Perturbative Pole Mass in QCD},
author = {Andreas S. Kronfeld},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9805215},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages REVTeX with 2 figures; archiving published version with note and references added. If you thought this was proven long ago see http://www-theory.fnal.gov/people/ask/TeX/mPole/