Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-05-16
Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 093023
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
13 pages, 2 figures; final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D; expanded versions of Figure 2 and Reference 30
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.093023
The strange quark mass is extracted from a finite energy sum rule (FESR) analysis of the flavor-breaking difference of light-light and light-strange quark vector-plus-axial-vector correlators, using spectral functions determined from hadronic tau decay data. We point out problems for existing FESR treatments associated with potentially slow convergence of the perturbative series for the mass-dependent terms in the OPE over certain parts of the FESR contour, and show how to construct alternate weight choices which not only cure this problem, but also (1) considerably improve the convergence of the integrated perturbative series, (2) strongly suppress contributions from the region of s values where the errors on the strange current spectral function are still large and (3) essentially completely remove uncertainties associated with the subtraction of longitudinal contributions to the experimental decay distributions. The result is an extraction of m_s with statistical errors comparable to those associated with the current experimental uncertainties in the determination of the CKM angle, V_{us}. We find m_s(1 GeV)=158.6\pm 18.7\pm 16.3\pm 13.3 MeV (where the first error is statistical, the second due to that on V_{us}, and the third theoretical).
Kambor Joachim
Maltman Kim
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