FIZIKA B 14 (2005)  1, 31 - 34

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A SCALING LAW FOR QUARK MASSES

HARALD FRITZSCH and ALP DENIZ ÖZER

Sektion Physik, Ludwig Maximillians University, Theresienstrasse 37, 80333 München, Germany

Dedicated to the memory of Professor Dubravko Tadić

Received 26 July 2004;        Accepted 20 June 2005
Online 7 November 2005

We show that the observed quark masses seem to be consistent with a simple scaling law. Due to the precise values of the heavy quarks, we are able to calculate the quark masses in the light quark sector. We discuss a possible value for the strange quark mass. We show that the u-type quark masses obey the scaling law very well.

PACS numbers: 12.15.Ff, 14.65.-q
UDC 539.126

Keywords: quark masses, scaling law, mass of strange quark

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