Browne, R.E. and Gracey, J.A. (2003) Two loop effective potential for < A^2_\mu > in the Landau gauge in quantum chromodynamics. Journal of High Energy Physics (11). Article Number: 029. ISSN 1029-8479
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Official URL: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1126-6708/2003/11/0...
Abstract
We construct the effective potential for the dimension two composite operator 1/2 A^{a 2}_\mu in QCD with massless quarks in the Landau gauge for an arbitrary colour group at two loops. For SU(3) we show that an estimate for the effective gluon mass decreases as N_f increases.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | LTH 581. arXiv Number: arXiv:hep-th/0306200v1. Published 25 November 2003. Issue: November 2003. 20 pages. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Renormalization Group; QCD; NLO Computations; YANG-MILLS THEORY; CURCI-FERRARI MODEL; LOOP (MS)OVER-BAR RENORMALIZATION; MAXIMAL ABELIAN GAUGE; GROSS-NEVEU MODEL; COMPOSITE OPERATOR; ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; MASS DIMENSION-2; FIELD THEORY; QCD |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
| Departments, Research Centres and Related Units: | Academic Faculties, Institutes and Research Centres > Faculty of Science > Department of Mathematical Sciences |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/11/029 |
| Publisher's Statement: | Copyright © Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing Limited 2008 |
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| Refereed: | No |
| Status: | Published |
| ID Code: | 515 |
| Deposited On: | 04 Nov 2008 13:01 |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2011 12:54 |
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