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Title: Low-momentum ghost dressing function and the gluon mass

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Universite de Paris XI, Ba circumflex timent 211, 91405 Orsay Cedex (France)
  2. Departamento Fisica Aplicada, Facultad Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva (Spain)

We study the low-momentum ghost propagator Dyson-Schwinger equation in the Landau gauge, assuming for the truncation a constant ghost-gluon vertex, as it is extensively done, and a simple model for a massive gluon propagator. Then, regular Dyson-Schwinger equation solutions (the zero-momentum ghost dressing function not diverging) appear to emerge, and we show the ghost propagator to be described by an asymptotic expression reliable up to the order O(q{sup 2}). That expression, depending on the gluon mass and the zero-momentum Taylor-scheme effective charge, is proven to fit pretty well some low-momentum ghost propagator data [I. L. Bogolubsky, E. M. Ilgenfritz, M. Muller-Preussker, and A. Sternbeck, Phys. Lett. B 676, 69 (2009); Proc. Sci., LAT2007 (2007) 290] from big-volume lattice simulations where the so-called ''simulated annealing algorithm'' is applied to fix the Landau gauge.

OSTI ID:
21432960
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 82, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.054007; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English