A divergence-free method to extract observables from correlation functions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.02.009zbMATH Open1345.81127arXiv1307.4587OpenAlexW1975958303MaRDI QIDQ315923FDOQ315923

Authors: Si-xue Qin 

Publication date: 26 September 2016

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Correlation functions provide information on the properties of mesons in vacuum and of hot nuclear matter. In this Letter, we present a new method to derive a well-defined spectral representation for correlation functions. Combining this method with the quark gap equation and the inhomogeneous Bethe-Salpeter equation in the rainbow-ladder approximation, we calculate in-vacuum masses of light mesons and the electrical conductivity of the quark-gluon plasma. The analysis can be extended to other observables of strong-interaction systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4587

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zbMATH Keywords

quark-gluon plasmatransport propertieselectrical conductivityBethe-Salpeter equationDyson-Schwinger equationshadron spectroscopynonperturbative methodsspectral functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Bethe-Salpeter and other integral equations arising in quantum theory (81Q40)

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• Analytic Bjorken flow in one-dimensional relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
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