On the flavour dependence of the $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s^4)$ correction to the relation between running and pole heavy quark masses

Abstract

Recently the four-loop perturbative QCD contributions to the relations between pole and running masses of charm, bottom and top quarks were evaluated in the $\overline{\mathrm{MS}}$-scheme with identical numerical error bars. In this work the flavour dependence of the $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s^4)$ correction to these asymptotic series is obtained in the semi-analytical form with the help of the least squares method. The numerical structure of the corresponding asymptotic perturbative relations between pole and running $c$, $b$ and $t$-quark masses is considered and the theoretical errors of the $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s^4)$-contributions are discussed. The explicit dependence for these relations on the renormalization scale ${\mu }^2$ and the flavour number $n_l$ is presented.

Comments: Text a bit modified. Additioinal discusions in favor of the results obtained are added in Note Added; extra references added; Modified INR-TH-2015-014 preprint, accepted for publication in Euro Phys. J. Plus