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Glueballs from the Bethe-Salpeter equation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We formulate a framework to determine the mass of glueball states of Landau gauge Yang-Mills theory in the continuum. To this end we derive a Bethe-Salpeter equation for two gluon bound states including the effects of Faddeev-Popov ghosts. We construct a suitable approximation scheme such that the interactions in the bound state equation match a corresponding successful approximation of the Dyson-Schwinger equations for the Landau gauge ghost and gluon propagators. Based upon a recently obtained solution for the propagators in the complex momentum plane we obtain results for the mass of the scalar and pseudoscalar glueballs. In the scalar channel we find a mass value in agreement with lattice gauge theory.

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@article{arxiv.1503.06051,
  title  = {Glueballs from the Bethe-Salpeter equation},
  author = {Helios Sanchis-Alepuz and Christian S. Fischer and Christian Kellermann and Lorenz von Smekal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.06051},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures, 1 table

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