Charm Current-Current Correlators in Twisted Mass Lattice QCD

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The current correlator method has been shown to be a practical tool to extract the charm quark mass and strong coupling constant from Lattice QCD data as an alternative to the sum rule approach using experimental electron-positron annihilation cross section data.

• We report on the progress of an investigation of charm current-current correlators in N_f=2 Twisted Mass Lattice QCD.
• Upon determining the temporal moments of the current correlators we compare to the low-energy expansion of the moments in perturbative QCD and calculate the charm quark mass and strong coupling constant and in case of the vector current correlator directly compare both methods.