Quark mass relations to four-loop order in perturbative QCD

Phys Rev Lett. 2015 Apr 10;114(14):142002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.142002. Epub 2015 Apr 7.

Abstract

We present results for the relation between a heavy quark mass defined in the on-shell and minimal subtraction (MS[over ¯]) scheme to four-loop order. The method to compute the four-loop on-shell integral is briefly described and the new results are used to establish relations between various short-distance masses and the MS[over ¯] quark mass to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order accuracy. These relations play an important role in the accurate determination of the MS[over ¯] heavy quark masses.