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Reconstructing the gluon

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-12-26 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We reconstruct the gluon spectral function in Landau gauge QCD from numerical data for the gluon propagator. The reconstruction relies on two novel ingredients: Firstly we derive analytically the low frequency asymptotics of the spectral function. Secondly we construct a functional basis from a careful consideration of the analytic properties of the gluon propagator in Landau gauge. This allows us to reliably capture the non-perturbative regime of the gluon spectrum. We also compare different reconstruction methods and discuss the respective systematic errors.

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@article{arxiv.1804.00945,
  title  = {Reconstructing the gluon},
  author = {Anton K. Cyrol and Jan M. Pawlowski and Alexander Rothkopf and Nicolas Wink},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.00945},
  year   = {2018}
}

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12 pages, 10 figures

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