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Gribov's horizon and the ghost dressing function

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-03-19 v1

Abstract

We study a relation recently derived by K. Kondo at zero momentum between the Zwanziger's horizon function, the ghost dressing function and Kugo's functions uu and ww. We agree with this result as far as bare quantities are considered. However, assuming the validity of the horizon gap equation, we argue that the solution w(0)=0w(0)=0 is not acceptable since it would lead to a vanishing renormalised ghost dressing function. On the contrary, when the cut-off goes to infinity, u(0)u(0) \to \infty, w(0)w(0) \to -\infty such that u(0)+w(0)1u(0)+w(0) \to -1. Furthermore ww and uu are not multiplicatively renormalisable. Relaxing the gap equation allows w(0)=0w(0)=0 with u(0)1u(0) \to -1. In both cases the bare ghost dressing function, F(0,Λ)F(0,\Lambda), goes logarithmically to infinity at infinite cut-off. We show that, although the lattice results provide bare results not so different from the F(0,Λ)=3F(0,\Lambda)=3 solution, this is an accident due to the fact that the lattice cut-offs lie in the range 1-3 GeV1^{-1}. We show that the renormalised ghost dressing function should be finite and non-zero at zero momentum and can be reliably estimated on the lattice up to powers of the lattice spacing ; from published data on a 80480^4 lattice at β=5.7\beta=5.7 we obtain FR(0,μ=1.5F_R(0,\mu=1.5 GeV)2.2\simeq 2.2.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0909.2615,
  title  = {Gribov's horizon and the ghost dressing function},
  author = {Ph. Boucaud and J. P. Leroy and A. Le Yaouanc and J. Micheli and O. Pène and J. Rodríguez-Quintero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.2615},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

13 pages, 4 figues

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