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It is conventionally taken for granted that the unitary gauge formulation of quantum gauge field theory has the advantage of preservation unitarity because only physical fields are involved but has the disadvantage of losing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-21 Er-Cheng Tsai

One-loop off-shell contributions to the three-gluon vertex are calculated, in arbitrary covariant gauge and in arbitrary space-time dimension, including quark-loop contributions (with massless quarks). It is shown how one can get the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. I. Davydychev , P. Osland , O. V. Tarasov

We study the gluon and ghost propagators of lattice Landau gauge in the strong coupling limit $\beta = 0$ in pure SU(2) lattice gauge theory to find evidence of the conformal infrared behaviour of these propagators as predicted by a variety…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-01-21 Andre Sternbeck , Lorenz von Smekal

It has long been known that the gluon propagator in Landau-gauge QCD exhibits a mass gap; and its emergence has been ascribed to the action of the Schwinger mechanism in the gauge sector of QCD. In the present work, we relate this property…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-29 Mauricio N. Ferreira , Joannis Papavassiliou , Jan M. Pawlowski , Nicolas Wink

Recently, several works have investigated the coupling to matter in ghost-free massive (bi-&multi-)gravity and a new effective coupling to matter has been proposed. In this note we clarify some confusion on the existence and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-24 Claudia de Rham , Lavinia Heisenberg , Raquel H. Ribeiro

We discuss the recent progress made in understanding how some fundamental results valid in the quenched infrared sector of non-Abelian Yang-Mills theories generalize to the unquenched case. In particular, we derive in the continuum an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-14 D. Binosi

We derive an approximate dynamical equation for the form-factor of the ghost-gluon vertex that contributes to the Schwinger-Dyson equation of the ghost dressing function in the Landau gauge. In particular, we consider the "one-loop dressed"…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-23 A. C. Aguilar

We study numerically the Schwinger-Dyson equations for the coupled system of gluon and ghost propagators in the Landau gauge and in the case of pure gauge QCD. We show that a dynamical mass for the gluon propagator arises as a solution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. C. Aguilar , A. A. Natale

We consider Higgs massive gravity [1,2] and investigate whether a nonlinear ghost in this theory can be avoided. We show that although the theory considered in [10,11] is ghost free in the decoupling limit, the ghost nevertheless reappears…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-11 Lasma Alberte , Ali H. Chamseddine , Viatcheslav Mukhanov

Within a simple Ansatz for renormalized gluon propagator and using gauge invariant pinch-technique for Schwinger-Dyson equation, the limits on the effective gluon mass is derived. We calculated scheme invariant running coupling, which in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-29 Vladimir Sauli

The infrared behavior of the gluon and ghost propagators is studied in SU(2) Euclidean Yang-Mills theory in the maximal Abelian gauge within the Gribov-Zwanziger framework. The nonperturbative effects associated with the Gribov copies and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. A. L. Capri , V. E. R. Lemes , R. F. Sobreiro , S. P. Sorella , R. Thibes

We report on the infrared behaviour of the lattice gluon propagator. The bounds on D(0) and their behaviour with the lattice volume are investigated, together with the full propagator. Moreover, a study of the gluon propagator using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-05 O. Oliveira , P. J. Silva

The effect of the Gribov horizon in Euclidean $SU(2)$ gauge theory is studied. Gauge fields on the Gribov horizon yield zero modes of ghosts and anti-ghosts. We show these zero modes can produce additional ghost interactions, and the Landau…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 Hirohumi Sawayanagi

We study the dominant non-perturbative power corrections to the ghost and gluon propagators in Landau gauge pure Yang-Mills theory using OPE and lattice simulations. The leading order Wilson coefficients are proven to be the same for both…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-03-19 Ph. Boucaud , J. P. Leroy , A. Le Yaouanc , A. Y. Lokhov , J. Micheli , O. Pene , J. Rodriguez-Quintero , C. Roiesnel

We study chiral symmetry breaking using the quark gap equation supplemented with the infrared-finite gluon propagator and ghost dressing function obtained from large-volume lattice simulations. One of the most important ingredients of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-15 Arlene C. Aguilar

Analytic solutions for the three-gluon and ghost-gluon vertices in Landau gauge Yang-Mills theory at low momenta are presented in terms of hypergeometric series. They do not only show the expected scaling behavior but also additional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-15 Reinhard Alkofer , Markus Q. Huber , Kai Schwenzer

Approximate solutions for the gluon and ghost propagators as well as the running coupling in Landau gauge Yang-Mills theories are presented. These propagators obtained from the corresponding Dyson-Schwinger equations are in remarkable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Alkofer , C. S. Fischer , L. von Smekal

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…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-06-01 Attilio Cucchieri , David Dudal , Tereza Mendes , Nele Vandersickel

We solve a truncated system of coupled Dyson-Schwinger equations for the gluon and ghost propagators in SU($N_c$) Yang-Mills theories in Faddeev-Popov quantization on a four-torus. This compact space-time manifold provides an efficient mean…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. S. Fischer , R. Alkofer , H. Reinhardt

Recently demonstrated ghost interference using correlated photons of different frequencies, has been theoretically analyzed. The calculation predicts an interesting nonlocal effect: the fringe width of the ghost interference depends not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Sheeba Shafaq , Tabish Qureshi