Mass of the $b$ Quark from QCD Sum Rules for $f_{B_{(s)}}$

Abstract

We demonstrate that Borel QCD sum rules for heavy-light currents entail a very strong correlation between the $b$-quark mass $m_b$ and the $B$-meson decay constant $f_B,$ that is, $δf_B/f_B\approx-8δm_b/m_b.$ By starting from $f_B$ as input, this observation allows for an accurate sum-rule determination of $m_b.$ Employing precise lattice QCD results for $f_B$ in our sum-rule study based on the three-loop $O(α_s^2)$ heavy-light correlation function implies $\bar{m}_b(\bar{m}_b)=(4.247\pm0.034)$ GeV for the $b$-quark $\bar{\rm MS}$ mass.

7 pages, 1 figure, talk presented at the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics - EPS-HEP2013, 18-24 July 2013, Stockholm, Sweden