Calculation of the strange quark mass using domain wall fermions - art. no. 114507

We present a first calculation of the strange quark mass using domain wall fermions. This paper contains an overview of the domain wall discretization and a pedagogical presentation of the perturbative calculation necessary f or computing the mass renormalization. We combine the latter with numerical simulations to estimate the strange quark mass. Our final result in the qu enched approximation is 95(26) MeV in the <(MS)over bar> scheme at a scale of 2 GeV. We find that domain wail fermions have a small perturbative mass renormalization, similar to Wilson quarks, and exhibit good scaling behavio r. [S0556-2821(99)01723-3].