The Gluon is Massive: A Lattice Calculation of the Gluon Propagator in the Landau Gauge

Author(s):  
J. E. Mandula ◽  
M. Ogilvie
1987 ◽  
Vol 185 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 127-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.E. Mandula ◽  
M. Ogilvie

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme T. R. Catumba ◽  
Orlando Oliveira ◽  
Paulo J. Silva

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (09) ◽  
pp. 1250050 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. G. BORNYAKOV ◽  
V. K. MITRJUSHKIN

Landau gauge gluon propagators are studied numerically in the SU (3) gluodynamics as well as in the full QCD with the number of flavors nF = 2 using efficient gauge fixing technique. We compare these propagators at temperatures very close to the transition point in two phases: confinement and deconfinement. The electric mass mE has been determined from the momentum space longitudinal gluon propagator. Gribov copy effects are found to be rather strong in the gluodynamics, while in the full QCD case they are weak ("Gribov noise"). Also we analyze finite volume dependence of the transverse and longitudinal propagators.


1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (08) ◽  
pp. 739-748
Author(s):  
H. NAKKAGAWA ◽  
A. NIÉGAWA ◽  
B. PIRE

The damping rate of a heavy muon/quark in a hot QED/QCD plasma is calculated in the Landau gauge to the effective one-loop order in the resummed perturbation theory of Braaten and Pisarski. For both a muon/quark at rest and in an energetic case we obtain to leading order the same result as in the Coulomb gauge. Resummation of hard-thermal loop corrections to the photon/gluon propagator is of key importance for this gauge independence.


2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (37) ◽  
pp. 2245-2256 ◽  
Author(s):  
YING CHEN ◽  
BING HE ◽  
HE LIN ◽  
JI-MIN WU

We calculated the SU(2) gluon propagator in Landau gauge on an anisotropic coarse lattice with the improved action. The standard and improved schemes are used to fix the gauge in this work. Even on the coarse lattice the lattice gluon propagator can be well described by a function of the continuous momentum. The effect of the improved gauge fixing scheme is found not to be apparent. Based on the Marenzoni's model, the mass scale and the anomalous dimension are extracted and can be reasonably extrapolated to the continuum limit with the values α~0.3 and M~600 MeV . We also extract the physical anisotropy ξ from the gluon propagator due to the explicit ξ dependence of the gluon propagator.


2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (32) ◽  
pp. 2429-2438 ◽  
Author(s):  
ATTILIO CUCCHIERI ◽  
AXEL MAAS ◽  
TEREZA MENDES

The infrared behavior of the gluon propagator is directly related to confinement in QCD. Indeed, the Gribov–Zwanziger scenario of confinement predicts an infrared vanishing (transverse) gluon propagator in Landau-like gauges, implying violation of reflection positivity and gluon confinement. Finite-volume effects make it very difficult to observe (in the minimal Landau gauge) an infrared suppressed gluon propagator in lattice simulations of the four-dimensional case. Here we report results for the SU(2) gluon propagator in a gauge that interpolates between the minimal Landau gauge (for gauge parameter λ equal to 1) and the minimal Coulomb gauge (corresponding to λ = 0). For small values of λ we find that the spatially-transverse gluon propagator D tr (0, |p|), considered as a function of the spatial momenta |p|, is clearly infrared suppressed. This result is in agreement with the Gribov–Zwanziger scenario and with previous numerical results in the minimal Coulomb gauge. We also discuss the nature of the limit λ→0 (complete Coulomb gauge) and its relation to the standard Coulomb gauge (λ = 0). Our findings are corroborated by similar results in the three-dimensional case, where the infrared suppression is observed for all considered values of λ.


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