On ghost condensation, mass generation and Abelian dominance in the Maximal Abelian Gauge
| dc.creator | Dudal, David | |
| dc.creator | Verschelde, Henri | |
| dc.date | 2002-09-03 | |
| dc.date | 2003-01-08 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:49:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:49:27Z | |
| dc.description | Recent work claimed that the off-diagonal gluons (and ghosts) in pure Yang-Mills theories, with Maximal Abelian gauge fixing (MAG), attain a dynamical mass through an off-diagonal ghost condensate. This condensation takes place due to a quartic ghost interaction, unavoidably present in MAG for renormalizability purposes. The off-diagonal mass can be seen as evidence for Abelian dominance. We discuss why ghost condensation of the type discussed in those works cannot be the reason for the off-diagonal mass and Abelian dominance, since it results in a tachyonic mass. We also point out what the full mechanism behind the generation of a real mass might look like. | |
| dc.description | 7 pages; uses revtex4 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209025 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209025 | |
| dc.identifier | J.Phys.A36:8507-8516,2003 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1088/0305-4470/36/31/312 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/184222 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | On ghost condensation, mass generation and Abelian dominance in the Maximal Abelian Gauge | |
| dc.type | text |