Gluon propagator in two-color dense QCD: Massive Yang-Mills approach at one-loop [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08751


We study the Landau gauge gluon propagators in dense two-color QCD at quark chemical potential, $\mu_q$, in the range from 0.5 to 1.0 GeV not reachable by the perturbative method at weak coupling. In order to take into account the non-perturbative effects, at tree level we use the massive Yang-Mills theory which has successfully described the lattice results of the gluon and ghost propagators in the Landau gauge. We couple quarks to this theory and compute the one-loop polarization effects. The presence of the gluon mass significantly tempers the medium effects and uncertainties associated with the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$. The diquark condensate in two-color QCD is color-singlet, for which neither electric nor magnetic screening masses should appear at the scale less than the diquark gap. The presence of the gap helps to explain the lattice results which are not very sensitive to the quark density. Meanwhile, we also found the limitation of the one-loop estimate as well as the lack of some physics in perturbative medium corrections.

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D. Suenaga and T. Kojo
Wed, 22 May 19
11/59

Comments: 17 pages, 11 figures