Physics Letters B 752 (2016) 122–127
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Determination of m
c
and m
b
from quarkonium 1S energy levels
in perturbative QCD
Y. Kiyo
a
, G. Mishima
b,∗
, Y. Sumino
c
a
Department of Physics, Juntendo University, Inzai, Chiba 270-1695, Japan
b
Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
c
Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
10 November 2015
Accepted
13 November 2015
Available
online 17 November 2015
Editor:
J. Hisano
We update determination of the MS masses of the charm and bottom quarks, from comparisons of the
masses of the charmonium and bottomonium 1S states with their perturbative predictions up to next-
to-next-to-next-to-leading
order in ε expansion and using the MS masses. Effects of non-zero charm-
quark
mass in the bottomonium masses are incorporated up to next-to-next-to-leading order. We obtain
m
c
= 1246 ± 2(d
3
) ± 4(α
s
) ± 23(h.o.) MeV and m
b
= 4197 ± 2(d
3
) ± 6(α
s
) ± 20(h.o.) ± 5(m
c
) MeV, which
agree with the current Particle Data Group values.
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1. Introduction
The Standard Model (SM) of elementary particle physics has
been successfully completed by the discovery of the Higgs particle,
whereas no definite clue to physics beyond the SM has been found
yet. In such an era, necessity for precise understanding of the SM
is increasing more than ever. In particular, to meet demands for ac-
curate
measurements required in the LHC experiments as well as
those for high-precision flavor physics, etc., there has been remark-
able
progress in the predictability of perturbative QCD in recent
years. The masses of the c- and b-quarks are among the important
fundamental parameters of perturbative QCD. They play crucial
roles, for instance, in testing predictions of the SM for the Yukawa
coupling constants of the Higgs particle, and also as the input pa-
rameters
for predicting various observables in flavor physics.
The
masses of the c- and b-quarks have been determined in
many ways. Even referring only to works published after the lat-
est
version of Review of Particle Physics [1] by Particle Data Group
(PDG) Collaboration, there are analyses based on non-relativistic
QCD sum rule [2,3], relativistic QCD sum rule [4], deep inelas-
tic
scattering [5], heavy quarkonium spectroscopy [6], and lattice
computation [7]. (See [1] for earlier studies.) Their physics ingre-
dients
vary substantially, and also they probe different kinematical
regions of QCD. Therefore, consistency of the determined values
provides a non-trivial test of QCD, and of the SM more generally.
*
Corresponding author.
E-mail
address: mishima@hep-th.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (G. Mishima).
In this paper we determine the masses of the c- and b-quarks
from comparisons of the energy levels of the charmonium and
bottomonium 1S states with their perturbative predictions. This
is an update of the mass determination performed as part of the
analyses in [8,9], which included perturbative expansion up to the
next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). We include one more order,
namely up to NNNLO. Recently, the four-loop relation to the pole
and MS quark masses has been computed [10]. The present study
is the first full analysis using the MS mass up to NNNLO. We also
include non-zero charm-quark mass effects in the computation of
the bottomonium energy levels, up to the highest order of the cur-
rently
available computations (up to two loops of internal c-quark)
[11]. On the experimental side, accurate data on the η
c
(1S) and
η
b
(1S) masses are available today, which we include in our anal-
ysis,
in addition to the J/ψ(1S) and ϒ(1S) masses used in the
NNLO analyses.
The purpose of the present study is to provide another ac-
curate
determination of these quark masses, and also there is a
different aspect. The heavy quarkonium states are unique among
various hadrons, in that properties of individual hadronic states
can be predicted purely within perturbative QCD. Hence, if we ob-
serve
consistency with the masses determined by other methods
with high accuracy, that can be an evidence that pure perturbative
QCD is indeed capable of predicting properties of these individual
hadrons with high precision, with only α
s
and the quark masses
as the input parameters of the theory.
Since
the study at the previous order, our understanding based
on perturbative QCD has developed considerably. On the one hand,
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