Abstract
We investigate the current-mass ratios of the light quarks by fitting the squares of meson masses to second order in chiral-symmetry breaking, determining corrections to Weinberg's first-order values: , . We find that to this order, is a known function of . The values of the quark-mass ratios can be constrained by limiting the size of second-order corrections to the squares of meson masses. We find that for specific values of presently unmeasured phenomenological parameters one can have a massless quark. In that case 30% of the squares of meson masses arise from operators second order in chiral-symmetry breaking.
- Received 19 February 1986
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.2004
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