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arxiv: hep-ph/9612329 · v1 · submitted 1996-12-11 · ✦ hep-ph

Top-quark pole mass

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keywords masslqcdpolequarktop-quarkambiguousamountdecays
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The top quark decays more quickly than the strong-interaction time scale, $\lqcd^{-1}$, and might be expected to escape the effects of nonperturbative QCD. Nevertheless, the top-quark pole mass, like the mass of a stable heavy quark, is ambiguous by an amount proportional to $\lqcd$.

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