Quark Masses on the Lattice: Light and Heavy

Abstract

I review the current status of lattice calculations of light and heavy quark masses. Significant progresses, in these studies, have been allowed by the introduction of improved actions and non-perturbative renormalization techniques. Current determinations of light quark masses are accurate at the level of 20%, where the main source of uncertainty is represented by the quenching error. The determination of the bottom quark mass is accurate at the impressive level of 2%. As final averages of lattice results, I quote mud(2 GeV) = (4.5 +- 1.0) MeV, ms(2 GeV) = (110 +- 25) MeV and mb(mb) = (4.26 +- 0.09) GeV.