Infrared gluon and ghost propagators from lattice QCD

We report on the infrared limit of the quenched lattice Landau gauge gluon and ghost propagators as well as the strong-coupling constant computed from large asymmetric lattices. The infrared lattice propagators are compared with the pure power law solutions from Dyson-Schwinger equations (DSE). For the gluon propagator, the lattice data is compatible with the DSE solution. The preferred measured gluon exponent being ∼0.52, favouring a vanishing propagator at zero momentum. The lattice ghost propagator shows finite-volume effects and, for the volumes considered, the propagator does not follow a pure power law. Furthermore, the strong-coupling constant is computed and its infrared behaviour investigated.     

Quark Loop Effects on Dressed Gluon Propagator in Framework of Global Color Symmetry Model

Based on the global color symmetry model (GCM), a method for obtaining the quark loop effects on the dressed gluon propagator in GCM is developed. In the chiral limit, it is found that the dressed gluon propagator containing the quark loop effects in the Nambu-Goldstone and Wigner phases are quite different. In solving the quark self-energy functions in the two different phases and subsequent study of bag constant one should use the above dressed gluon propagator as input. The above approach for obtaining the current quark mass effects on the dressed gluon propagator is quite general and can also be used to calculate the chemical potential dependence of the dressed gluon propagator.     

Quark Gluon Condensate,Virtuality and Susceptibility of QCD Vacuum

We study vacuum of QCD in this work. The structure of non-local quark vacuum condensate, values of various local quark and gluon vacuum condensates, quark-gluon mixed vacuum condensate, quark and gluon virtuality in QCD vacuum state, quark dynamical mass and susceptibility of QCD vacuum state to external field are predicted by use of the solutions of Dyson-Schwinger equations in “rainbow” approximation with a modeling gluon propagator and three different sets of quark-quark interaction parameters. Our theoretical predictions are in good agreement with the correspondent empirical values used widely in literature, and many other theoretical calculations. The quark propagator and self-energy functions are also obtained from the numerical solutions of Dyson-Schwinger equations. This work is centrally important for studying non-perturbative QCD, and has many important applications both in particle and nuclear physics.     

Infrared properties of the glue propagator in non-abelian gauge theories

In a pure Yang-Mills theory, the Dyson equation for the gluon propagator is studied in the infrared regime, under the assumption that, as in QED, only those parts of the proper gluon vertex functions determined by the Ward identities are relevant. The calculations are all carried out in the axial gauge. With a number of simplifying assumptions the resulting integral equation for the gluon propagator can be solved in the IR regime. The solution displays a power singularity in the IR for the renormalized coupling constant g(q²).     

Probing Quark Loop Effects on Dressed Gluon Propagator

We study the quark loop effects on the dressed gluon propagator and also on the quark propagator itself. We find that the gluon propagators are different in two phases. The quark mass effects on the gluon propagator are small but not negligible. We also study the current quark mass dependence on the bag constant.     

Kugo-Ojima confinement and QCD Green''s functions in covariant gauges

In Landau gauge QCD the Kugo-Ojima confinement criterion and its relations to the infrared behaviour of the gluon and ghost propagators are reviewed. It is demonstrated that the realization of this confinement criterion (which is closely related to the Gribov-Zwanziger horizon condition) results from quite general properties of the ghost Dyson-Schwinger equation. The numerical solutions for the gluon and ghost propagators obtained from a truncated set of Dyson-Schwinger equations provide an explicit example for the anticipated infrared behaviour. The results are in good agreement, also quantitatively, with corresponding lattice data obtained recently. The resulting running coupling approaches a fixed point in the infrared, (0) = 8.915/N_c. Solutions for the coupled system of Dyson-Schwinger equations for the quark, gluon and ghost propagators are presented. Dynamical generation of quark masses and thus spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry takes place. In the quenched approximation the quark propagator functions agree well with those of corresponding lattice calculations. For a small number of light flavours the quark, gluon and ghost propagators deviate only slightly from the ones in quenched approximation. While the positivity violation of the gluon spectral function is manifest in the gluon propagator, there are no clear indications of analogous positivity violations for quarks so far.     

Applicability of Parametrized Form of Fully Dressed Quark Propagator

According to extensive study of the Dyson-Schwinger equations for a fully dressed quark propagator in the "rainbow" approximation with an effective gluon propagator, a parametrized fully dressed confining quark propagator is suggested in this paper. The parametrized quark propagator describes a confined quark propagation in hadron, and is analytic everywhere in complex p2-plane and has no Lehmann representation. The vector and scalar self-energy functions [1 - Af(p2)] and [Bf(p2) - mf], dynamically running effective mass of quark Mf(p2) and the structure of non-local quark vacuum condensates as well as local quark vacuum condensates are predicted by use of the parametrized quark propagator. The results are compatible with other theoretical calculations.     

Implications of Analyticity to the Solution of Schwinger-Dyson Equations in Minkowski Space

We discuss some recent developments in nonperturbative studies of quantum field theory (QFT) using the Schwinger-Dyson equations formulated directly in Minkowski space. We begin with the introduction of essential ideas of the integral representation in QFT and a discussion of the renormalization in this approach. The technique based on the integral representation of Green’s functions is exploited to solve Schwinger-Dyson equations in several models of quantum field theory, e.g., in scalar models and in strong coupling QED₃₊₁ in the quenched and in the unquenched approximation. The phenomenon of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in regularized theory is touched. In QCD, the analyticity of the gluon propagator on the complex momentum square plane is exploited to continue some recent lattice data to the timelike momentum axis. We find a contribution to the non-positive absorptive part in the Landau-gauge gluon propagator which is in agreement with some other new recent analyses.     

Study of the gluon propagator in the axial gauge

It is shown that a non-linear integral equation for the gluon propagator in the axial gauge (Baker et al.) can be simplified considerably. A comparison is made with an approximate equation for the gluon propagator in the Landau gauge (Mandelstam). Both equations have polynomial kernels where the argument is the divisor of the internal and external momenta. A solution which behaves as a double pole for low momenta remains consistent.     

The Non-Perturbative Approach to the Infrared Problem in QCD at Finite Temperature

A non-perturbative approach is developed for investigation of the infrared problem in QCD at T ≠ 0 in the ghost-free axial gauge. The problem is solved by using a 3-dimensional theory within the exact Slavnov-Taylor identities and Schwinger-Dyson equations. The system of two non-linear integral equations for the structural functions of the gluon polarization tensor is obtained whose solution determines the infrared behavior of the temperature Green functions in the 4-dimensional QCD. The simplest solution of these equations which is the same as the first term of the perturbation expansion shows the presence of singularities in the gluon propagator at momenta p ∼ g²T, that cannot be eliminated by any choice of the gauge. The infrared instability of QCD at T ≠ 0 caused by these singularities is discussed.     

The quark propagator from the Dyson-Schwinger equations: (I). The chiral solution

Within the framework of the Dyson-Schwinger equations in the axial gauge, and using a truncation procedure which respects the Ward-Takahashi identities, we study the effect that nonperturbative glue has on the quark propagator. We show that within this truncation scheme, the requirement of matching perturbative QCD at high momentum transfer leads to a multiplicatively renormalisable equation. Technically, the matching with perturbation theory is accomplished by the introduction of a transverse part to the quark-gluon vertex. In the case of an analytic gluon propagator, this truncation scheme can lead to chiral symmetry breaking only after the introduction of such a transverse vertex: massless solutions do not exist beyond a critical value of as. Using the gluon propagator that we previously obtained, we obtain small corrections to the quark propagator, which keeps a pole at the origin in the chiral phase.     

Numerically Solving Quark-Loop Effects on Dressed Gluon Propagator in Chiral Limit

We do a numerical calculation on the quark-loop effects on the dressed gluon propagator in the chiral limit. It is found that the quark-loop effects on the dressed gluon propagator are significant in solving the quark propagator in the rainbow approximation of the Dyson-Schwinger equation. The approach we used here is quite general and can also be used to calculate both the chemical potential and current quark mass dependence of the dressed gluon propagator.     

An analytic calculation of the weak field limit of the static color dielectric constant

We analyze the Dyson equation/Ward identity system for the axial gauge n · A = 0 gluon propagator Δ_μν(q)whenn · q = 0. The solution behaves like (q^?4 + (q²)^ν?1) for small q₂, and we are able to calculate the power ν analytically. It turns out to be 0.1737. This analytic calculation verifies our earlier numerical solutions to these equations. For static problems, n · q = 0 is the temporal gauge, and in this gauge the gluon propagator is directly related to the color dielectric constant. We can thus calculate the dielectric constant in the infrared limit.     

The Effective Gluon Propagator in the Global Color Symmetry Model

It is shown that the effective gluon propagator in the global color symmetry model can be calculated in the instanton dilute liquid approximation. The calculated effective gluon propagator is consistent with the general command on the qualitative features of the gluon propagator, i.e., (i) the gluon propagator is significantly enhanced at small space-like k², and (ii) for k² > 1.5 GeV² the perturbative results are quantitatively reliable.     

Self-consistent treatment of one-gluon exchange in the soliton bag model

In the context of the soliton bag model, the quarks, soliton field and the gluon propagator are calculated self-consistently in the mean-field, one-gluon exchange approximation. The use of a confined propagator, as compared with a free propagator, is primarily to change the effective quark-gluon coupling constant by a factor of approximately two in the case of static, spherical bags. Self-consistency leads to only a small improvement in the fit to physical data, after readjustment of model parameters. Nevertheless, use of a confined propagator is expected to have an important effect on deformed bags and in dynamical calculations.     

Chiral and deconfinement transition from correlation functions: SU(2) vs. SU(3)

We study a gauge-invariant order parameter for deconfinement and the chiral condensate in SU(2) and SU(3) Yang–Mills theory in the vicinity of the deconfinement phase transition using the Landau gauge quark and gluon propagators. We determine the gluon propagator from lattice calculations and the quark propagator from its Dyson–Schwinger equation, using the gluon propagator as input. The critical temperature and a deconfinement order parameter are extracted from the gluon propagator and from the dependency of the quark propagator on the temporal boundary conditions. The chiral transition is determined using the quark condensate as order parameter. We investigate whether and how a difference in the chiral and deconfinement transition between SU(2) and SU(3) is manifest.     

Gauge and Lorentz covariant quark propagator in an arbitrary gluon field

The quark propagator in the presence of an arbitrary gluon field is calculated gauge and Lorentz covariantly order by order in terms of powers of the gluon field and its derivatives. The result is independent of the path connecting the ends of the propagator, and the leading order result coincides with the exact propagator in the trivial case of a vanishing gluon field. Received: 5 February 2003 / Published online: 23 May 2003     

The Color Gauge Invariance and a Possible Origin of Mass in QCD

The general scale parameter, having the dimensions of mass squared, is dynamically generated in the QCD gluon sector. It is introduced through the difference between the regularized full gluon self-energy and its value at some finite point. It violates transversality of the full gluon self-energy. The Slavnov-Taylor identity for the full gluon propagator, when it is given by the corresponding equation of motion, is also violated by it. So in order to maintain both transversality and the identity it should be disregarded from the very beginning, i.e., put formally zero everywhere. However, we have shown how to preserve the above-mentioned identity at non-zero mass squared parameter. This allows one to establish the structure of the full gluon propagator when it is explicitly present. Its contribution does not survive in the perturbation theory regime, when the gluon momentum goes to infinity. At the same time, its contribution dominates the structure of the full gluon propagator when the gluon momentum goes to zero. We have also proposed a method how to restore transversality of the relevant gluon propagator in a gauge invariant way, while keeping the mass squared parameter “alive”.     

Compatibility of a model for the QCD-Pomeron and chiral-symmetry breaking phenomenologies

The phenomenology of a QCD-Pomeron model based on the exchange of a pair of non-perturbative gluons, i.e. gluon fields with a finite correlation length in the vacuum, is studied in comparison with the phenomenology of QCD chiral symmetry breaking, based on non-perturbative solutions of Schwinger-Dyson equations for the quark propagator including these non-perturbative gluon effects. We show that these models are incompatible, and point out some possibles origins of this problem.     

Intermediate Range Force Contributions to Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QCD

We propoee the intermediate range QCD force singular like δ(q) by analysing the gluon propagator in the nonperturbative region from QCD sum rules. With the help of the Slavnov- Taylor-Ward identity we derive the equations for the nonperturbative quark propagator from the Schwinger-Dyson (SD) equation. Solutione for the quark propagator in two special cases are given. We find that the intermediate range force L also responsible for the chiral symmetry breaking in QCD.