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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Infrared exponent for gluon and ghost propagation in Landau gauge QCD |
Author: | Lerche, Christoph von Smekal, Lorenz Johann Maria |
Citation: | Physical Review D, 2002; 65(12):125006 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
ISSN: | 1550-7998 |
School/Discipline: | School of Chemistry and Physics |
Statement of Responsibility: | Christoph Lerche and Lorenz von Smekal |
Abstract: | In the covariant description of confinement, one expects the ghost correlations to be infrared enhanced. Assuming ghost dominance, the long-range behavior of gluon and ghost correlations in Landau gauge QCD is determined by one exponent κ. The gluon propagator is infrared finite (vanishing) for κ=1/2 (κ>1/2) which is still under debate. Here, we study the critical exponent and coupling for the infrared conformal behavior from the asymptotic form of the solutions to the Dyson-Schwinger equations in an ultraviolet finite expansion scheme. The value for κ is directly related to the ghost-gluon vertex. Assuming that it is regular in the infrared, one obtains κ≃0.595. This value maximizes the critical coupling αc(κ), yielding αcmax≃(4π/Nc)0.709≈2.97 for Nc=3. For larger κ the vertex acquires an infrared singularity in the gluon momentum; smaller ones imply infrared singular ghost legs. Variations in αc remain within 5% from κ=0.5 to 0.7. Above this range, αc decreases more rapidly with αc→0+ as κ⃗1- which sets the upper bound on κ. |
Rights: | ©2002 American Physical Society |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.65.125006 |
Appears in Collections: | Chemistry and Physics publications |
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