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Ghost spectral function from the spectral Dyson-Schwinger equation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-11-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We compute the ghost spectral function in Yang-Mills theory by solving the corresponding Dyson-Schwinger equation for a given input gluon spectral function. The results encompass both scaling and decoupling solutions for the gluon propagator input. The resulting ghost spectral function displays a particle peak at vanishing momentum and a negative scattering spectrum, whose infrared and ultraviolet tails are obtained analytically. The ghost dressing function is computed in the entire complex plane, and its salient features are identified and discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2103.16175,
  title  = {Ghost spectral function from the spectral Dyson-Schwinger equation},
  author = {Jan Horak and Joannis Papavassiliou and Jan M. Pawlowski and Nicolas Wink},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.16175},
  year   = {2021}
}

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15 pages, 11 figures

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