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Infrared Exponents and the Running Coupling of Landau gauge QCD and their Relation to Confinement

Reinhard Alkofer, Christian S. Fischer, Lorenz von Smekal

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0209366

Abstract

The infrared behaviour of the gluon and ghost propagators in Landau gauge QCD is reviewed. The Kugo-Ojima confinement criterion and the Gribov-Zwanziger horizon condition result from quite general properties of the ghost Dyson-Schwinger equation. The numerical solutions for the gluon and ghost propagators obtained from a truncated set of Dyson-Schwinger equations provide an explicit example for the anticipated infrared behaviour. The results are in good agreement with corresponding lattice data obtained recently. The resulting running coupling approaches a fix point in the infrared, α(0) = 8.92/Nc. Two different fits for the scale dependence of the running coupling are given and discussed.

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