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QCD Green functions in a gluon field

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

We formulate a dressed perturbative expansion of QCD, where the standard diagrams are evaluated in the presence of a constant external gluon field whose magnitude is gaussian distributed. The approach is Poincar{\'e} and gauge invariant, and modifies the usual results for hard processes only by power suppressed contributions. Long distance propagation of quarks and gluons turns out to be inhibited due to a branch point singularity instead of a pole at p2=0p^2=0 in the quark and gluon propagators. The dressing keeps the (massless) quarks in q qbar fluctuations of the photon at a finite distance from each other.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0410235,
  title  = {QCD Green functions in a gluon field},
  author = {Paul Hoyer and Stephane Peigne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0410235},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

21 pages, 7 figures. Minor modifications in text. Version to be published in JHEP

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