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The Masses of the Light Quarks

H. Leutwyler

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9602255

Abstract

Talk given at the Conference on Fundamental Interactions of Elementary Particles, ITEP, Moscow, Oct. 1995. The paper reviews the current status of knowledge concerning mu, md and ms. Qualitative aspects of the resulting picture for the breaking of isospin and eightfold way symmetries are discussed. At a more quantitative level, the review focuses on the chiral perturbation theory results for the masses of the Goldstone bosons. The corresponding bounds and estimates for the ratios mu/md and ms/md are described in some detail.

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