Revised variational approach to QCD in Coulomb gauge

Davide R. Campagnari, Ehsan Ebadati, Hugo Reinhardt, and Peter Vastag
Phys. Rev. D 94, 074027 – Published 20 October 2016

Abstract

The variational approach to QCD in Coulomb gauge is revisited. By assuming the non-Abelian Coulomb potential to be given by the sum of its infrared and ultraviolet parts, i.e. by a linearly rising potential and an ordinary Coulomb potential, and by using a Slater determinant ansatz for the quark wave functional, which contains the coupling of the quarks and the gluons with two different Dirac structures, we obtain variational equations for the kernels of the fermionic vacuum wave functional, which are free of ultraviolet divergences. Thereby, a Gaussian-type wave functional is assumed for the gluonic part of the vacuum. By using the results of the pure Yang-Mills sector for the gluon propagator as input, we solve the equations for the fermionic kernels numerically and calculate the quark condensate and the effective quark mass in leading order. Assuming a value of σC=2.5σ for the Coulomb string tension (where σ is the usual Wilsonian string tension) the phenomenological value of the quark condensate ψ¯ψ(235MeV)3 is reproduced with a value of g2.1 for the strong coupling constant of the quark-gluon vertex.

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  • Received 25 August 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.074027

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Particles & Fields

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Davide R. Campagnari, Ehsan Ebadati, Hugo Reinhardt, and Peter Vastag

  • Institut für Theoretische Physik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

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Vol. 94, Iss. 7 — 1 October 2016

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