Bottom quark mass and QCD duality

Abstract

The mass of the bottom quark is analyzed in the context of QCD finite energy sum rules. In contrast to the conventional approach, we use a large momentum expansion of the QCD correlator including terms to order α_{s}^{2}(m_{b}^{2}/q^{2})^{6} with the upsilon resonances from e^{+}e^{-} annihilation data as main input. A stable result m_{b}(m_{b})=4.19\pm 0.05 GeV} for the bottom quark mass is obtained. This result agrees with the independent calculations based on the inverse moment analysis.

10 pages, 2 figures