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

1987 ◽  
pp. 211-221
Author(s):  
J. E. Mandula ◽  
M. Ogilvie
Keyword(s):  
Gluon Propagator ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Lattice Calculation

scholarly journals LATTICE QCD GLUON PROPAGATORS NEAR TRANSITION TEMPERATURE

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (09) ◽  
pp. 1250050 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. G. BORNYAKOV ◽  
V. K. MITRJUSHKIN
Keyword(s):  
Transition Temperature ◽  
Lattice Qcd ◽  
Finite Volume ◽  
Momentum Space ◽  
Transition Point ◽  
Gluon Propagator ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Volume Dependence ◽  
Gauge Fixing ◽  
Two Phases

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.

GAUGE INDEPENDENCE OF THE FERMION DAMPING RATE IN A HOT PLASMA - LANDAU GAUGE VS COULOMB GAUGE

1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (08) ◽  
pp. 739-748
Author(s):  
H. NAKKAGAWA ◽  
A. NIÉGAWA ◽  
B. PIRE
Keyword(s):  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Gluon Propagator ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Coulomb Gauge ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Loop Order ◽  
Hard Thermal Loop ◽  
Hot Plasma ◽  
Damping Rate

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.

scholarly journals SU(2) GLUON PROPAGATOR ON A COARSE ANISOTROPIC LATTICE

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (37) ◽  
pp. 2245-2256 ◽  
Author(s):  
YING CHEN ◽  
BING HE ◽  
HE LIN ◽  
JI-MIN WU
Keyword(s):  
Continuum Limit ◽  
Anomalous Dimension ◽  
Gluon Propagator ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Mass Scale ◽  
Gauge Fixing ◽  
Anisotropic Lattice ◽  
The Continuum

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.

scholarly journals INFRARED-SUPPRESSED GLUON PROPAGATOR IN 4D YANG–MILLS THEORY IN A LANDAU-LIKE GAUGE

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (32) ◽  
pp. 2429-2438 ◽  
Author(s):  
ATTILIO CUCCHIERI ◽  
AXEL MAAS ◽  
TEREZA MENDES
Keyword(s):  
Finite Volume ◽  
Gluon Propagator ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Coulomb Gauge ◽  
Dimensional Case ◽  
Gauge Parameter ◽  
Reflection Positivity ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Transverse Gluon

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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