The top quark decays more quickly than the strong-interaction time scale, ΛQCD^-1, and might be expected to escape the effects of nonperturbative QCD. Nevertheless, the top-quark pole mass, like the pole mass of a stable heavy quark, is ambiguous by an amount proportional to ΛQCD.
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Smith et al. (1997) studied this question.
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