{
  "id": "2211.12594",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2022-11-22T21:37:52.000Z",
  "updated": "2022-11-22T21:37:52.000Z",
  "title": "Schwinger mechanism for gluons from lattice QCD",
  "authors": [
    "A. C. Aguilar",
    "F. De Soto",
    "M. N. Ferreira",
    "J. Papavassiliou",
    "F. Pinto-Gómez",
    "C. D. Roberts",
    "J. Rodríguez-Quintero"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, 8 figures",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "hep-ex",
    "hep-lat",
    "nucl-ex",
    "nucl-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "Continuum and lattice analyses have revealed the existence of a mass-scale in the gluon two-point Schwinger function. It has long been conjectured that this expresses the action of a Schwinger mechanism for gauge boson mass generation in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). For such to be true, it is necessary and sufficient that a dynamically-generated, massless, colour-carrying, scalar gluon+gluon correlation emerge as a feature of the dressed three-gluon vertex. Working with results on elementary Schwinger functions obtained via the numerical simulation of lattice-regularised QCD, we establish with an extremely high level of confidence that just such a feature appears; hence, confirm the conjectured origin of the gluon mass scale.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2022-11-22T21:37:52.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "schwinger mechanism",
      "lattice qcd",
      "gluon two-point schwinger function",
      "gauge boson mass generation",
      "elementary schwinger functions"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}