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Temperature Dependence of Gluon and Ghost Propagators in a Dyson-Schwinger Equations context

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-12-15 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We investigate the finite-temperature structure of ghost and gluon propagators within an approach based on the rainbow truncated Dyson-Schwinger equations in Landau gauge. The method, early used for modeling the quark, ghost and gluon propagators in vacuum, is extended to finite temperatures. In Euclidean space, within the Matsubara imaginary-time formalism it is necessary to distinguish between the transversal and longitudinal, with respect to the heat bath, gluon dressing functions, for which the Dyson-Schwinger equation splits into a corresponding system of coupled equations. This system is considered within the rainbow approximation generalized to finite temperatures and solved numerically. The solutions for the ghost and gluon propagators are obtained as functions of temperature TT, Matsubara frequency Ωn\Omega_n and three-momentum squared k2{\bf k}^2. It is found that, for zero Matsubara frequency, the dependence of the ghost and gluon dressing functions on k2{\bf k}^2 are not sensitive to the temperature TT, while at k2=0{\bf k}^2=0 their dependence on TT is quite strong. Dependence on the Matsubara frequency Ωn\Omega_n is investigated as well.The performed numerical analysis of the solution of the Dyson-Schwinger equations shows that at certain value of the temperature T0150T_0\sim 150 MeV the iteration procedure does not longer converge. In the vicinity of T0T_0 the longitudinal gluon propagator increases quite fastly, whereas the transversal propagator does not exhibit any irregularity. This in a qualitative agreement with results obtained within the QCD lattice calculations in this temperature interval.

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@article{arxiv.2212.07173,
  title  = {Temperature Dependence of Gluon and Ghost Propagators in a Dyson-Schwinger Equations context},
  author = {L. P. Kaptari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.07173},
  year   = {2022}
}

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20 pages, 10 eps-pictures