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Confinement and the analytic structure of the one body propagator in Scalar QED

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v2

Abstract

We investigate the behavior of the one body propagator in SQED. The self energy is calculated using three different methods: i) the simple bubble summation, ii) the Dyson-Schwinger equation, and iii) the Feynman-Schwinger represantation. The Feynman-Schwinger representation allows an {\em exact} analytical result. It is shown that, while the exact result produces a real mass pole for all couplings, the bubble sum and the Dyson-Schwinger approach in rainbow approximation leads to complex mass poles beyond a certain critical coupling. The model exhibits confinement, yet the exact solution still has one body propagators with {\it real} mass poles.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9907445,
  title  = {Confinement and the analytic structure of the one body propagator in Scalar QED},
  author = {Cetin Savkli and Franz Gross and John Tjon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9907445},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

5 pages 2 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D