Exploring smoking-gun signals of the Schwinger mechanism in QCD

Autor(es)

Aguilar, A. C. ^[1] ; Ferreira, M. N. ^[1] ; Papavassiliou, J. ^{[2, 3, 4]}

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Campinas UNICAMP, Inst Phys Gleb Wataghin, BR-13083859 Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[2] Univ Valencia, Dept Theoret Phys, E-46100 Valencia - Spain

^[3] Univ Valencia, IFIC, E-46100 Valencia - Spain

^[4] CSIC, E-46100 Valencia - Spain

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: Physical Review D; v. 105, n. 1 JAN 27 2022.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

In Quantum Chromodynamics, the Schwinger mechanism endows the gluons with an effective mass through the dynamical formation of massless bound-state poles that are longitudinally coupled. The presence of these poles affects profoundly the infrared properties of the interaction vertices, inducing crucial modifications to their fundamental Ward identities. Within this general framework, we present a detailed derivation of the non-Abelian Ward identity obeyed by the pole-free part of the three-gluon vertex in the softgluon limit, and determine the smoking-gun displacement that the onset of the Schwinger mechanism produces to the standard result. Quite importantly, the quantity that describes this distinctive feature coincides formally with the bound-state wave function that controls the massless pole formation. Consequently, this signal may be computed in two independent ways: by solving an approximate version of the pertinent BetheSalpeter integral equation, or by appropriately combining the elements that enter in the aforementioned Ward identity. For the implementation of both methods we employ two- and three-point correlation functions obtained from recent lattice simulations, and a partial derivative of the ghost-gluon kernel, which is computed from the corresponding Schwinger-Dyson equation. Our analysis reveals an excellent coincidence between the results obtained through either method, providing a highly nontrivial self-consistency check for the entire approach. When compared to the null hypothesis, where the Schwinger mechanism is assumed to be inactive, the statistical significance of the resulting signal is estimated to be 3 standard deviations. (AU)

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