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Heavy-light quark pseudoscalar and vector mesons at finite temperature
The temperature dependence of the mass, leptonic decay constant, and width of
heavy-light quark peseudoscalar and vector mesons is obtained in the framework
of thermal Hilbert moment QCD sum rules. The leptonic decay constants of both
pseudoscalar and vector mesons decrease with increasing , and vanish at a
critical temperature , while the mesons develop a width which increases
dramatically and diverges at , where is the temperature for
chiral-symmetry restoration. These results indicate the disappearance of
hadrons from the spectral function, which then becomes a smooth function of the
energy. This is interpreted as a signal for deconfinement at . In
contrast, the masses show little dependence on the temperature, except very
close to , where the pseudoscalar meson mass increases slightly by 10-20
%, and the vector meson mass decreases by some 20-30
Strange quark mass from Finite Energy QCD sum rules to five loops
The strange quark mass is determined from a new QCD Finite Energy Sum Rule
(FESR) optimized to reduce considerably the systematic uncertainties arising
from the hadronic resonance sector. As a result, the main uncertainty in this
determination is due to the value of . The correlator of
axial-vector divergences is used in perturbative QCD to five-loop order,
including quark and gluon condensate contributions, in the framework of both
Fixed Order (FOPT), and Contour Improved Perturbation Theory (CIPT). The latter
exhibits very good convergence, leading to a remarkably stable result in the
very wide range , where is the radius of the
integration contour in the complex energy (squared) plane. The value of the
strange quark mass in this framework at a scale of 2 GeV is for , respectively.Comment: Additional comments added at the end of the Conclusions, and one
extra reference is given. A note added in proof uses the most recent
determination of Lambda_QCD from ALEPH to narrow down the predictio
Strange quark condensate from QCD sum rules to five loops
It is argued that it is valid to use QCD sum rules to determine the scalar
and pseudoscalar two-point functions at zero momentum, which in turn determine
the ratio of the strange to non-strange quark condensates with (). This is done in the framework
of a new set of QCD Finite Energy Sum Rules (FESR) that involve as integration
kernel a second degree polynomial, tuned to reduce considerably the systematic
uncertainties in the hadronic spectral functions. As a result, the parameters
limiting the precision of this determination are , and to a
major extent the strange quark mass. From the positivity of there
follows an upper bound on the latter: , for Comment: Minor changes to Sections 2 and