In quantum field theory, the pole mass of an elementary particle is the limiting value of the rest mass of a particle, as the energy scale of measurement increases.[1][2]
Running mass
editIn quantum field theory, quantities like coupling constant and mass "run" with the energy scale of high energy physics. The running mass of a fermion or massive boson depends on the energy scale at which the observation occurs, in a way described by a renormalization group equation (RGE) and calculated by a renormalization scheme such as the on-shell scheme or the minimal subtraction scheme. The running mass refers to a Lagrangian parameter whose value changes with the energy scale at which the renormalization scheme is applied. A calculation, typically done by a computerized algorithm intractable by paper calculations, relates the running mass to the pole mass. The algorithm typically relies on a perturbative calculation of the self energy.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Michael Peskin and David V. Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory Addison-Weasley, Reading, 1995; see chapter 7, section 1.
- ^ Teresa Barillari, Top-quark and top-quark pole mass measurements with the ATLAS detector, arXiv, 2017
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