Physics Letters B 747 (2015) 541–544
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Scalar coupling evolution in a non-perturbative QCD resummation
scheme
J.D. Gomez
a
, A.A. Natale
a,b,∗
a
Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, 09210-170, Santo André, SP, Brazil
b
Instituto de Física Teórica, UNESP, Rua Dr. Bento T. Ferraz, 271, Bloco II, 01140-070, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
2 June 2015
Received
in revised form 17 June 2015
Accepted
19 June 2015
Available
online 22 June 2015
Editor:
M. Cveti
ˇ
c
Keywords:
Other
nonperturbative techniques
General
properties of QCD
We compute the Standard Model scalar coupling (λ) evolution in a particular QCD resummation scheme,
where the QCD coupling becomes infrared finite due to the presence of a dynamically generated gluon
mass, leading to the existence of a non-perturbative infrared fixed point. We discuss how this scheme
can be fixed taking recourse to phenomenological considerations in the infrared region. The QCD β
function associated to this non-perturbative coupling when introduced into the SM renormalization group
equations increases the λ values at high energies.
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One of the techniques to study QCD at low energies are the
Schwinger–Dyson Equations (SDE). This is an analytic method but
with the complication of dealing with an infinite tower of cou-
pled
integral equations. Because of this, when using the SDE, one
have to make a truncation in the system of equations, which has
to be done in a way that the symmetries of the theory are not
broken, in particular, a rough truncation in the SDE can cause a vi-
olation
of the gauge symmetry. In the recent years an enormous
progress has been made in solving SDE in a gauge invariant way
using the so-called Pinch Technique [1], as a result it has been
found the existence of a dynamical gluon mass in the propaga-
tor
of the gluon field, as suggested many years ago by Cornwall
[2]. Another non-perturbative technique is Lattice QCD [3], which
implies heavy numerical calculations requiring a considerably high
amount of computer power. Results obtained in QCD lattice simu-
lations
are in agreement with the SDE in what concerns dynamical
gluon mass generation [4,5].
The
infrared QCD coupling turns out to be infrared finite when
gluons develop a dynamically generated mass. This point was al-
ready
emphasized in Ref. [2]; was also discussed at length in
Refs. [6,7], and leads to an infrared fixed point, which is a prop-
erty
of dynamical mass generation in non-Abelian theories [8]. The
phenomenological consequences of such infrared finite coupling,
*
Corresponding author at: Instituto de Física Teórica, UNESP, Rua Dr. Bento T.
Ferraz, 271, Bloco II, 01140-070, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
E-mail
addresses: jgomez@ufabc.edu.br (J.D. Gomez), natale@ift.unesp.br
(A.A. Natale).
or non-perturbative fixed point, have been discussed in Ref. [9],
and recently we have discussed how this non-perturbative fixed
point can change the local minimum of a renormalization group
improved effective potential [10]. This change of minimum state
may produce noticeable modifications in the physical properties of
the model studied in Ref. [10].
In
view of the results of Ref. [10] we will study the effect of
the non-perturbative fixed point present in QCD with dynamically
massive gluons in the scalar coupling evolution of the Standard
Model (SM). It should be noticed that we shall be dealing with a
very particular QCD resummation scheme, provided by the results
of the Pinch Technique applied to the SDE, which have been ar-
gued
that can lead to off-shell Green’s functions that are locally
gauge invariant and renormalization group invariant [11]. The QCD
α
s
coupling that we shall consider will not depend on the renor-
malization
point μ but on the dynamical gluon mass m
g
(k
2
) and,
of course, on the QCD characteristic scale
QCD
≡ . This coupling
contains the effect of summation of several loops according to the
calculations detailed in Refs. [1,2,6,7], and the free parameter in
this particular scheme, namely the infrared value of the dynamical
gluon mass, will be fixed by taking recourse to phenomenological
considerations about the coupling constant IR behavior.
The
first calculation of the IR frozen QCD coupling in the pres-
ence
of a dynamically generated gluon mass was obtained in
Ref. [2], leading to the following coupling:
g
2
(k
2
) =
1
β
0
ln
k
2
+4·m
2
g
2
QCD
=
4πα
s
(k
2
), (1)
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