Bottom quark mass with calibrated uncertainty

Light Quark Mass Effects in Bottom Quark Mass Determinations

Recent results for charm quark mass effects in perturbative bottom quark mass determinations from Υ mesons are reviewed. The connection between the behavior of light quark mass corrections and the infrared sensitivity of some bottom quark mass definitions is examined in some detail.

Bottom Quark Mass from Υ Mesons

The bottom quark pole mass M b is determined using a sum rule which relates the masses and the electronic decay widths of the Υ mesons to large n moments of the vacuum polarization function calculated from nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics. The complete set of next-to-next-to-leading order (i.e. O(α 2 s , α s v, v 2) where v is the bottom quark c.m. velocity) corrections is calculated and ...

Bottom quark pole mass and |Vcb | matrix

Bottom quark mass and |Vcb | matrix element

Bottom Quark Mass and QCD Duality

The mass of the bottom quark is analyzed in the context of QCD finite energy sum rules. In contrast to the conventional approach, we use a large momentum expansion of the QCD correlator including terms to order αs(m 2 b/q ) with the upsilon resonances from ee annihilation data as main input. A stable result mb(mb) = (4.19 ± 0.05) GeV for the bottom quark mass is obtained. This result agrees wit...