Off-diagonal mass generation for Yang-Mills theories in the maximal Abelian gauge

Abstract

We investigate a dynamical mass generation mechanism for the off-diagonal gluons and ghosts in SU(N) Yang-Mills theories, quantized in the maximal Abelian gauge. Such a mass can be seen as evidence for the Abelian dominance in that gauge. It originates from the condensation of a mixed gluon-ghost operator of mass dimension two, which lowers the vacuum energy. We construct an effective potential for this operator by a combined use of the local composite operators technique with algebraic renormalization and we discuss the gauge parameter independence of the results. We also show that it is possible to connect the vacuum energy, due to the mass dimension two condensate discussed here, with the non-trivial vacuum energy originating from the condensate <A^2>, which has attracted much attention in the Landau gauge.

arXiv comment15 pages. Revtex. 1 .eps figure. Talk given by D.Dudal at XXV Encontro Nacional de Fisica de Particulas e Campos, Caxambu, Minas Gerais, Brasil, 24-28 Aug 2004. To appear in Brazilian Journal of Physics

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