TY - JOUR AU - Papavassiliou, J. PY - 2022 DA - 2022// TI - Emergence of mass in the gauge sector of QCD T2 - Chin. Phys. C JO - Chinese Physics C SP - 112001 EP - 23pp VL - 46 IS - 11 PB - IOP Publishing Ltd KW - non perturbative QCD KW - Schwinger-Dyson equations KW - Schwinger functions AB - It is currently widely accepted that gluons, while massless at the level of the fundamental QCD Lagrangian, acquire an effective mass through the non-Abelian implementation of the classic Schwinger mechanism. The key dynamical ingredient that triggers the onset of this mechanism is the formation of composite massless poles inside the fundamental vertices of the theory. These poles enter the evolution equation of the gluon propagator and nontrivially affect the way the Slavnov-Taylor identities of the vertices are resolved, inducing a smoking-gun displacement in the corresponding Ward identities. In this article, we present a comprehensive review of the pivotal concepts associated with this dynamical scenario, emphasizing the synergy between functional methods and lattice simulations and highlighting recent advances that corroborate the action of the Schwinger mechanism in QCD. SN - 1674-1137 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.04977 UR - https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/ac84ca DO - 10.1088/1674-1137/ac84ca LA - English N1 - WOS:000873336100001 ID - Papavassiliou2022 ER -