2003/04/01 by Mandar S. Bhagwat, M. S. Bhagwat, M. A. Pichowsky +3 · 188 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.68.015203
published in Physical Review C 68(1) (American Institute of Physics) · 9 pages, LaTeX2e, REVTEX4, 6 figures
arxiv created 2003/04/01 · openalex publication_date 2003/07/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Quenched lattice-QCD data on the dressed-quark Schwinger function can be correlated with dressed-gluon data via a rainbow gap equation so long as that equation's kernel possesses enhancement at infrared momenta above that exhibited by the gluon alone. The required enhancement can be ascribed to a dressing of the quark-gluon vertex. The solutions of the rainbow gap equation exhibit dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and are consistent with confinement. The gap equation and related, symmetry-preserving ladder Bethe-Salpeter equation yield estimates for chiral and physical pion observables that suggest these quantities are materially underestimated in the quenched theory; |〈qq〉| by a factor of 2 and f_\ensuremathπ by 30%.