%0 Journal Article %T Confinement, the gluon propagator and the interquark potential for heavy mesons %A Vento, V. %J European Physical Journal A %D 2013 %V 49 %N 6 %I Springer %@ 1434-6001 %G English %F Vento2013 %O WOS:000321431100006 %O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1510), last updated on Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:02:31 +0000 %X The interquark static potential for heavy mesons described by a massive one-gluon exchange interaction obtained from the propagator of the truncated Dyson-Schwinger equations does not reproduced the expected Cornell potential. I show that no formulation based on a finite propagator will lead to confinement of quenched QCD. I propose a mechanism based on a singular nonperturbative coupling constant which has the virtue of giving rise to a finite gluon propagator and (almost) linear confinement. The mechanism can be slightly modified to produce the screened potentials of unquenched QCD. %R 10.1140/epja/i2013-13071-2 %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2002 %U https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2013-13071-2 %P 71-7pp