The Perturbative Pole Mass in QCD

Abstract

It is widely believed that the pole mass of a quark is infrared-finite and gauge-independent to all orders in perturbation theory. This seems not to have been proved in the literature. A proof is provided here.

Comments: 12 pages REVTeX with 2 figures; archiving published version with note and references added. If you thought this was proven long ago see http://www-theory.fnal.gov/people/ask/TeX/mPole/