Re: Fitting quark masses, mass as vacuum dielectric energy

whopkins_at_csd.uwm.edu
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 07:51:49 +0000 (UTC)

whopkins@csd.uwm.edu wrote:
> For quarks, extending to SU(3), the charge invariant corresponding to
> the SU(3) charge would be V alpha_s, where alpha_s is the
corresponding
> coupling (alpha_s is on the order of 0.9?)

alpha_s ~~ 0.119.

> Again, one finds a close match:
> Tr(Mass_{quark} c^2) = V alpha_s.
>
> (Top quark around 175 GeV, V around 255 GeV).

V closer to 245-250 GeV.

The quark masses add up to around 180-185 GeV, giving you:
              Tr(Mass_{quark} c^2) / (V alpha_s) ~~ 6