The Quark-Gluon Vertex and the QCD Infrared Dynamics

TL;DR

This study solves the Dyson-Schwinger equation for the quark-gluon vertex using recent lattice data, revealing infrared enhancement and specific kinematic preferences, advancing understanding of QCD infrared dynamics.

Contribution

It provides a detailed solution for the quark-gluon vertex incorporating lattice data and a new normalization, highlighting infrared behavior and tensor structure dominance.

Findings

Infrared enhancement of form factors

Deviation from tree level below 2 GeV

Vertex dominated by specific tensor structures

Abstract

The Dyson-Schwinger quark equation is solved for the quark-gluon vertex using the most recent lattice data available in the Landau gauge for the quark, gluon and ghost propagators, the full set of longitudinal tensor structures in the Ball-Chiu vertex, taking into account a recently derived normalisation for a quark-ghost kernel form factors and the gluon contribution for the tree level quark-gluon vertex identified on a recent study of the lattice soft gluon limit. A solution for the inverse problem is computed after the Tikhonov linear regularisation of the integral equation, that implies solving a modified Dyson-Schwinger equation. We get longitudinal form factors that are strongly enhanced at the infrared region, deviate significantly from the tree level results for quark and gluon momentum below 2 GeV and at higher momentum approach their perturbative values. The computed quark-gluon vertex favours kinematical configurations where the quark momentum $p$ and the gluon momentum $q$ are small and parallel. Further, the quark-gluon vertex is dominated by the form factors associated to the tree level vertex $\gamma_\mu$ and to the operator $2 \, p_\mu + q_\mu$. The higher rank tensor structures provide small contributions to the vertex.