%0 Journal Article
%T Schwinger mechanism for gluons from lattice QCD
%A Aguilar, A. C.
%A De Soto, F.
%A Ferreira, M. N.
%A Papavassiliou, J.
%A Pinto-Gomez, F.
%A Roberts, C. D.
%A Rodriguez-Quintero, J.
%J Physics Letters B
%D 2023
%V 841
%I Elsevier
%@ 0370-2693
%G English
%F Aguilar_etal2023
%O WOS:000984221700001
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=5530), last updated on Mon, 29 May 2023 07:27:27 +0000
%X 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 emerges 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.
%K Continuum Schwinger function methods
%K Emergence of mass
%K Gluons
%K Lattice Schwinger function methods
%K Quantum chromodynamics
%K Schwinger mechanism of gauge boson mass
%K generation
%R 10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137906
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12594
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137906
%P 137906-8pp