The infrared behavior of the gluon and ghost propagators in SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in the maximal abelian gauge

• Autor(a) principal: Capri,M.A.L.
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Dudal,D., Gracey,J.A., Lemes,V.E.R., Sobreiro,R.F., Sorella,S.P., Thibes,R., Verschelde,H.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Physics
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-97332007000400019
• topic: Yang-Mills gauge theory; Maximal Abelian gauge; Faddeev-Popov operator; Propagators; Gribov-Zwanziger scenario; Condensates

We report on some recent analytical results on the behaviour of the gluon and ghost propagators in Euclidean SU(2) Yang-Mills theory quantized in the maximal Abelian gauge (MAG). This gauge is of particular interest for the dual superconductivity picture to explain color confinement. Two kinds of effects are taken into account: those arising from a treatment of Gribov copies in the MAG and those arising from a dynamical mass originating in a dimension two gluon condensate. The diagonal component of the gluon propagator displays the typical Gribov-type behaviour, while the off-diagonal component is of the Yukawa type due to the dynamical mass. These results are in qualitative agreement with available lattice data on the gluon propagators. The off-diagonal ghost propagator exhibits an infrared enhancement due to the Gribov restriction, while the diagonal one remains unaffected.