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Masses of Fundamental Particles pp 149–164Cite as

Light-Quark Masses

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Abstract

The first crude estimates for the magnitude of the three lightest quark masses appeared more than 20 years ago:1

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Leutwyler, H. (1997). Light-Quark Masses. In: Lévy, M., Iliopoulos, J., Gastmans, R., Gérard, JM. (eds) Masses of Fundamental Particles. NATO ASI Series, vol 363. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0242-9_6

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