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We calculate the triple gluon, ghost-gluon and quark-gluon vertex functions at two loops in the MSbar scheme in the chiral limit for an arbitrary linear covariant gauge when the external legs are all off-shell.
We analyse the one loop effective action of the Gribov-Zwanziger Lagrangian and use the local composite operator formalism to include the most general Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) dimension two mass operator for the localizing ghost fields. We show that the energetically favourable colour channel corresponds to what is known as the R direction.
The one loop 3-point vertex functions of QCD in the maximal abelian gauge (MAG) are evaluated at the fully symmetric point at one loop. As a consequence the theory is renormalized in the various momentum (MOM) schemes which are defined by the trivalent vertices, as well as in the MSbar scheme. From these the two loop renormalization group functions in the MOM schemes are derived using the one loop conversion functions. In parallel we repeat the analysis for the Curci-Ferrari gauge which corresponds to the MAG in a specific limit. The relation between the Lambda parameters in different schemes is also provided.
We review the large N method of calculating high order information on the renormalization group functions in a quantum field theory which is based on conformal integration methods. As an example these techniques are applied to a typical graph contributing to the beta-function of O(N) phi^4 theory at O(1/N^2). The possible future directions for the large N methods are discussed in light of the development of more recent techniques such as the Laporta algorithm.
We compute the three loop MSbar anomalous dimension for the 3-quark operator corresponding to the proton. This requires the treatment of gamma^5 within dimensional regularization as well as evanescent operators generated through the renormalization. We extend the Larin scheme for gamma^5 to a mixing matrix of finite renormalization constants chosen so that chiral symmetry is manifest in four dimensions. We also provide the finite part of the Green's function at two loops where the operator is inserted at zero momentum in a quark 3-point function in an arbitrary linear covariant gauge in order to assist with the lattice measurement of the same quantity. The renormalization of the generalized 3-quark operators in the scheme devised by Kraenkl and Manashov is extended to three loops and the anomalous dimensions for the (1/2,0), (3/2,0) and (1,1/2) spin operators with various chiralities are also given.
The 3-point vertices of QCD are examined at the symmetric subtraction point at one loop in the Landau gauge in the presence of the Gribov mass, gamma. They are expanded in powers of gamma^2 up to dimension four in order to determine the order of the leading correction. As well as analysing the pure Gribov-Zwanziger Lagrangian, its extensions to include localizing ghost masses are also examined. For comparison a pure gluon mass term is also considered.
We compute the triple gluon, quark-gluon and ghost-gluon vertices of QCD at the symmetric subtraction point at two loops in the MSbar scheme. In addition we renormalize each of the three vertices in their respective momentum subtraction schemes, MOMggg, MOMq and MOMh. The conversion functions of all the wave functions, coupling constant and gauge parameter renormalization constants of each of the schemes relative to MSbar are determined analytically. These are then used to derive the three loop anomalous dimensions of the gluon, quark, Faddeev-Popov ghost and gauge parameter as well as the beta-function in an arbitrary linear covariant gauge for each MOM scheme. There is good agreement of the latter with earlier Landau gauge numerical estimates of Chetyrkin and Seidensticker.
The renormalization of the third moment of the twist-2 flavour non-singlet Wilson operator is given to two loops in the RI'/SMOM renormalization scheme. This involves renormalizing the operator itself and the two total derivative operators into which it mixes by inserting it into a quark 2-point function and evaluating the amplitudes at the symmetric subtraction point. The corresponding two loop conversion functions are derived from which the three loop Landau gauge anomalous dimension is deduced. The full set of amplitudes for the two loop Green's function for each of the operators are given in both the MSbar and RI'/SMOM schemes.
We present the full expressions for the QCD beta-function in the MOMggg, MOMq and MOMh renormalization schemes at three loops for an arbitrary colour group in the Landau gauge. The results for all three schemes are in very good agreement with the SU(3) numerical estimates provided by Chetyrkin and Seidensticker.
We compute the anomalous dimensions of the flavour non-singlet twist-2 Wilson operators in the RI'/SMOM scheme at two loops in an arbitrary linear covariant gauge. In addition we provide the full Green's function for these operators inserted in a quark 2-point function at the symmetric subtraction point. The three loop anomalous dimensions in the Landau gauge are also derived.
We compute the amplitudes for the insertion of various operators in a quark 2-point function at one loop in the RI' symmetric momentum scheme, RI'/SMOM. Specifically we focus on the moments n = 2 and 3 of the flavour non-singlet twist-2 operators used in deep inelastic scattering as these are required for lattice computations.
We determine the two loop corrections to the Green's function of a quark current inserted in a quark 2-point function at the symmetric subtraction point. The amplitudes for the scalar, vector and tensor currents are presented in both the MSbar and RI'/SMOM renormalization schemes. The RI'/SMOM scheme two loop renormalization for the scalar and tensor cases agree with previous work. The vector current renormalization requires special treatment as it must be consistent with the Slavnov-Taylor identity which we demonstrate. We also discuss the possibility of an alternative definition of the RI'/SMOM scheme in the case of the tensor current.
The three dimensional Gribov-Zwanziger Lagrangian is analysed at one and two loops. Specifically, the two loop gap equation is evaluated and the Gribov mass is expressed in terms of the coupling constant. The one loop corrections to the propagators of all the fields are determined. It is shown that when the gap equation is satisfied the Faddeev-Popov ghost and both Bose and Grassmann localizing ghosts all enhance in the infrared limit at one loop. This verifies that the Kugo-Ojima confinement criterion holds to this order and we also show that both Grassmann ghosts are enhanced at two loops. For the Bose ghost we determine the full form of the propagator in the zero momentum limit for both the transverse and longitudinal pieces and confirm Zwanziger's recent general analysis for the low energy behaviour. We provide an alternative but equivalent version of the horizon condition expressing it as the vacuum expectation value of an operator involving only the localizing Bose ghost field. The one loop static potential is also determined.
We consider the implications of the condensation of a general local BRST invariant dimension two operator built out of the localizing ghost fields of the Gribov-Zwanziger Lagrangian which is a localized Lagrangian incorporating the Gribov problem in the Landau gauge. For different colour tensor projections of the general operator, the properties of a frozen gluon propagator and unenhanced Faddeev-Popov ghost propagator, which are observed in lattice computations, can be reproduced. The alternative possibilities are distinguished by the infrared structure of the propagators of the spin-1 fields, other than those of the gluon and Faddeev-Popov ghost, for which there is no numerical simulation data to compare with yet.
We compute the static potential in the Gribov-Zwanziger Lagrangian as a function of the Gribov mass, gamma, in the MSbar scheme in the Landau gauge at one loop. The usual gauge independent one loop perturbative static potential is recovered in the limit as gamma -> 0. By contrast the Gribov-Zwanziger static potential contains the term gamma^2/(p^2)^2. However, the linearly rising potential in coordinate space as a function of the radial variable r does not emerge due to a compensating behaviour as r -> infty. Though in the short distance limit a dipole behaviour is present. We also demonstrate enhancement in the propagator of the bosonic localizing Zwanziger ghost field when the one loop Gribov gap equation is satisfied. The explicit form of the one loop gap equation for the Gribov mass parameter is also computed in the MOM scheme and the zero momentum value of the renormalization group invariant effective coupling constant is shown to be the same value as that in the MSbar scheme.
We provide an algebraic study of the local composite operators A_μA_ν-δ_{μν}/d A^2 and A^2, with d=4 the spacetime dimension. We prove that these are separately renormalizable to all orders in the Landau gauge. This corresponds to a renormalizable decomposition of the operator A_μA_νinto its trace and traceless part. We present explicit results for the relevant renormalization group functions to three loop order, accompanied with various tests of these results. We then develop a formalism to determine the zero temperature effective potential for the corresponding condensates, and recover the already known result for \neq 0, together with =0, a nontrivial check that the approach is consistent with Lorentz symmetry. The formalism is such that it is readily generalizable to the finite temperature case, which shall allow a future analytical study of the electric-magnetic symmetry of the condensate, which received strong evidence from recent lattice simulations by Chernodub and Ilgenfritz, who related their results to 3 regions in the Yang-Mills phase diagram.
We compute the two loop MSbar correction to the Gribov mass gap equation in the Landau gauge using the Gribov-Zwanziger Lagrangian with massive quarks included. The computation involves dilogarithms of complex arguments and reproduces the known gap equation when the quark mass tends to zero.
We compute a variety of operator-operator correlation functions to third order in the MSbar scheme in the chiral limit. These include combinations of quark bilinear currents with gauge invariant operators such as moments n = 2 and 3 of the flavour non-singlet Wilson operators of deep inelastic scattering and moment n = 2 of the transversity operator, as well as the correlation functions of the latter operators with themselves. The explicit values of these gauge independent correlation functions are required to assist with non-perturbative matching to lattice regularized calculations of the same quantities. As part of the computation we determine the mixing matrix of renormalization constants of these non-singlet currents with their associated total derivative operators at the same twist to three loops in MSbar. Such operators are crucial in extracting renormalization constants for the operator-operator correlation functions which are consistent with the corresponding renormalization group equation. As a by-product we deduce the R-ratio for the tensor current to third order in the MSbar scheme.