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The Strong Running Coupling from an Approximate Gluon Dyson-Schwinger Equation

R. Alkofer, A. Hauck, L. von Smekal

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9608471

Abstract

Using Mandelstam's approximation to the gluon Dyson-Schwinger equation we calculate the gluon self-energy in a renormalisation group invariant fashion. We obtain a non-perturbative β function. The scaling behaviour near the ultraviolet stable fixed point is in good agreement with perturbative QCD. No further fixed point for positive values of the coupling is found: αS increases without bound in the infrared.

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