The effect of sea quarks on the mass of the charm quark from lattice QCD UKQCD Collaboration
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چکیده
We compute the mass of the charm quark using both quenched and dynamical lattice QCD calculations. We examine the effects of mass dependent lattice artifacts by comparing two different formalisms for the heavy quarks. We take the continuum limit of the charm mass in quenched QCD by extrapolating from three different lattice spacings. At a fixed lattice spacing, the mass of the charm quark is compared between quenched QCD and dynamical QCD with a sea quark mass around strange. In the continuum limit of quenched QCD, we find mc(mc) = 1.29(7)(13) GeV. No evidence was seen for unquenching.
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