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| author | Comitini, Giorgio |
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| contents | Evidence from lattice and continuum studies supports the existence of a fully nonperturbative Higgs mechanism generating mass for gluons in linear covariant gauges. The broken charge is the Kugo-Ojima charge. The corresponding unphysical Goldstone boson is a bound-state superposition of two gluons, three gluons, a ghost-antighost, and a quark-antiquark pair. Mass generation occurs via the Schwinger mechanism, triggered by the formation of the Goldstone boson. Once corrected for symmetry breaking, the color charge operator is unbroken and confining. |
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| spellingShingle | Nonperturbative Higgs-Schwinger mechanism at the origin of the gluon mass and color confinement Comitini, Giorgio High Energy Physics - Theory High Energy Physics - Lattice Evidence from lattice and continuum studies supports the existence of a fully nonperturbative Higgs mechanism generating mass for gluons in linear covariant gauges. The broken charge is the Kugo-Ojima charge. The corresponding unphysical Goldstone boson is a bound-state superposition of two gluons, three gluons, a ghost-antighost, and a quark-antiquark pair. Mass generation occurs via the Schwinger mechanism, triggered by the formation of the Goldstone boson. Once corrected for symmetry breaking, the color charge operator is unbroken and confining. |
| title | Nonperturbative Higgs-Schwinger mechanism at the origin of the gluon mass and color confinement |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory High Energy Physics - Lattice |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22181 |