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Modeling the Landau-Gauge Ghost Propagator in 2, 3 and 4 Space-Time Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2016-06-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present an analytic description of numerical results for the ghost propagator G(p^2) in minimal Landau gauge on the lattice. The data were produced in the SU(2) case using the largest lattice volumes to date, for d = 2, 3 and 4 space-time dimensions. Our proposed form for G(p^2) is derived from the one-loop relation between ghost and gluon propagators, considering a tree-level ghost-gluon vertex and our previously obtained gluon-propagator results \cite{Cucchieri:2011ig}. Although this one-loop expression is not a good description of the data, it leads to a one-parameter fit of our ghost-propagator data with a generally good value of \chi^2/dof, comparable to other fitting forms used in the literature. At the same time, we present a simple parametrization of the difference between the lattice data and the one-loop predictions.

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@article{arxiv.1602.01646,
  title  = {Modeling the Landau-Gauge Ghost Propagator in 2, 3 and 4 Space-Time Dimensions},
  author = {Attilio Cucchieri and David Dudal and Tereza Mendes and Nele Vandersickel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.01646},
  year   = {2016}
}

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21 pages, 16 figures (23 plots), 1 table