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A Divergence-Free Method to Extract Observables from Meson Correlation Functions

Nuclear Theory 2013-07-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Correlation functions provide information on the properties of mesons in vacuum and of hot nuclear matter. In this Letter, we present a new method to derive a well-defined spectral representation for correlation functions. Combining this method with the quark gap equation and the inhomogeneous Bethe-Salpeter equation in the rainbow-ladder approximation, we calculate in-vacuum masses of light mesons and the electrical conductivity of the quark-gluon plasma. The analysis can be extended to other observables of strong-interaction systems.

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@article{arxiv.1307.4587,
  title  = {A Divergence-Free Method to Extract Observables from Meson Correlation Functions},
  author = {Si-xue Qin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.4587},
  year   = {2013}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures

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