The anatomy of electroweak symmetry breaking: Tome I: The Higgs boson in the Standard Model

RunDec: A Mathematica package for running and decoupling of the strong coupling and quark masses

Physics of leptoquarks in precision experiments and at particle colliders

http://cds.cern.ch/record/369443/files/9810063.pdf

Non-perturbative quark mass renormalization in quenched lattice QCD

We perform an $\mathcal{O}({\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}^{2})$ perturbative calculation of the equation of state of cold but dense QCD matter with two massless and one massive quark flavor, finding that perturbation theory converges reasonably well for quark chemical potentials above 1 GeV. Using a running coupling constant and strange quark mass, and allowing for further nonperturbative effects, our results point to a narrow range where absolutely stable strange quark matter may exist. Absent stable strange quark matter, our findings suggest that quark matter in (slowly rotating) compact star cores becomes confined to hadrons only slightly above the density of atomic nuclei. Finally, we show that equations of state including quark matter lead to hybrid star masses up to $M\ensuremath{\sim}2{M}_{\ensuremath{\bigodot}}$, in agreement with current observations. For strange stars, we find maximal masses of $M\ensuremath{\sim}2.75{M}_{\ensuremath{\bigodot}}$ and conclude that confirmed observations of compact stars with $Mg2{M}_{\ensuremath{\bigodot}}$ would strongly favor the existence of stable strange quark matter.

Cold quark matter

We present the results of analytic calculation of the quark mass anomalous dimension to alpha_s**4.

K. G. Chetyrkin

Papers

Quark Mass Anomalous Dimension to alpha_s**4