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Problems with conventional sum rule analyses for the light quark masses and a new analysis of ms

✍ Scribed by K. Maltman; R. Gupta; T. Bhattacharya


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
282 KB
Volume
631
Category
Article
ISSN
0375-9474

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✦ Synopsis


In what follows, we explore existing sum rule analyses of the u, d and s quark masses. We argue that certain assumptions about the behavior of unmeasured continuum scalar and pseudoscalar spectral functions can lead to significant overestimates of these masses, and illustrate the source of the problem in the analogous isovector vector channel. A new analysis for the strange quark mass verifies the existence of these problems in the previous analyses.