The mass of the strange quark
Master Thesis
1991
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Sum rules in QCD are discussed and finite energy and Laplace transform sum rules are used to determine the strange-quark mass. We use improved QCD input and experimental data to obtain for the invariant mass: mₛ= 266 ± 29 MeV, or for the running mass at 1 GeV: mₛ(1 GeV) = 194 ± 4 MeV.
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Van Gend, C. 1991. The mass of the strange quark. University of Cape Town.