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We study chiral symmetry breaking in QCD-like gauge theories introducing a confining effective propagator, as proposed recently by Cornwall, and considering the effect of dynamical gauge boson mass generation. The effective confining…
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We present a comprehensive analysis of the Landau-Khalatnikov-Fradkin transformations for the charged fermion propagator in reduced quantum electrodynamics (RQED). Starting from the propagator in a reference gauge, we perform a gauge…
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