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Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 152002 (2004) [4 pages]

Infrared Behavior and Fixed Points in Landau-Gauge QCD

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Jan M. Pawlowski1, Daniel F. Litim2, Sergei Nedelko1,3, and Lorenz von Smekal1
1Institut für Theoretische Physik III, Universität Erlangen, Staudtstraße 7, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
2Theory Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 and SPA, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
3BLTP, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Russia

Received 8 January 2004; published 7 October 2004

We investigate the infrared behavior of gluon and ghost propagators in Landau-gauge QCD by means of an exact renormalization group equation. We explain how, in general, the infrared momentum structure of Green functions can be extracted within this approach. An optimization procedure is devised to remove residual regulator dependences. In Landau-gauge QCD this framework is used to determine the infrared leading terms of the propagators. The results support the Kugo-Ojima confinement scenario. Possible extensions are discussed.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.152002
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.152002
PACS:
12.38.Aw, 11.15.Tk