Matching-invariant running quark masses in Quantum Chromodynamics

Abstract

The conventional quark mass is not continuous at thresholds. In this paper, we derive matchinginvariant quark masses which are continuous everywhere. They are expanded as an obvious function of the logarithmic Lambda scaled energy. The expansion coefficients are related to the original gamma and beta functions, with concretization to four loop level. The results show that the new expressions for the quark masses converge indeed much faster.