2014
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2881-8
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Infrared saturation and phases of gauge theories with BRST symmetry

Abstract: We investigate the infrared limit of the quantum equation of motion of the gauge boson propagator in various gauges and models with a BRST symmetry. We find that the saturation of this equation at low momenta distinguishes between the Coulomb, Higgs and confining phase of the gauge theory. The Coulomb phase is characterized by a massless gauge boson. Physical states contribute to the saturation of the transverse equation of motion of the gauge boson at low momenta in the Higgs phase, while the saturation is en… Show more

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“…An approach that strengthens the evidence for confinement being related to the behaviour of Green's function in the extreme infrared only is based on the study of the gluon's quantum equation of motion and how its saturation in the infrared by physical or unphysical degrees of freedom distinguishes between the Coulomb, the Higgs and the confining phase of a gauge theory [148]. This investigation also further elucidates the role of the BRST symmetry of the gaugefixed theory for several types of confinement scenarios, see also the reviews [149,150] and references therein.…”
Section: Confinementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…An approach that strengthens the evidence for confinement being related to the behaviour of Green's function in the extreme infrared only is based on the study of the gluon's quantum equation of motion and how its saturation in the infrared by physical or unphysical degrees of freedom distinguishes between the Coulomb, the Higgs and the confining phase of a gauge theory [148]. This investigation also further elucidates the role of the BRST symmetry of the gaugefixed theory for several types of confinement scenarios, see also the reviews [149,150] and references therein.…”
Section: Confinementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There are also studies from a perspective of the KugoOjima (KO) criterion and the Gribov problem. The KO criterion has been generalized to the MA gauge in a very recent paper [16] and there are also the Gribov copies in the MA gauge, located on the other side of the horizon [22][23][24]. The gluon propagator in the MA gauge has been also studied on the basis of the original Gribov's work and the horizon term in the MA gauge, corresponding to that in the Landau gauge has been studied [2,3,22].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They may then be expressed in terms of the shifted variables. and the generator of rigid color rotations, Q C , of the GZ-theory is [9,14], …”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We here extend, and review for completeness, the analysis in [9] of the Kugo-Ojima confinement criterion [6,7] and the GZ action.…”
Section: Tree-level Evaluation Of the Trace Anomalymentioning
confidence: 90%
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