TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.4.149
TI  - On the quark spectral function in QCD
PY  - 2023/10/10
UR  - https://www.scipost.org/SciPostPhys.15.4.149
JF  - SciPost Physics
JA  - SciPost Phys.
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
SP  - 149
A1  - Horak, Jan
AU  - Pawlowski, Jan M.
AU  - Wink, Nicolas
AB  - We calculate the spectral function of light quark flavours in 2+1 flavour vacuum QCD in the isospin-symmetric approximation. We employ spectral Dyson-Schwinger equations and compute the non-perturbative quark propagator directly in real-time, using recent spectral reconstruction results from Gaussian process regression of gluon propagator data in 2+1 flavour lattice QCD. Our results feature a pole-like peak structure at time-like momenta larger than the propagator's gapping scale as well as a negative scattering continuum, which we exploit assuming an analytic pole-tail split during the iterative solution. The computation is augmented with a general discussion of the impact of the quark-gluon vertex and the gluon propagator on the analytic structure of the quark propagator. In particular, we investigate under which conditions the quark propagator shows unphysical complex poles. Our results offer a wide range of applications, encompassing the ab-initio calculation of transport as well as resonance properties in QCD.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.4.149,
	title={{On the quark spectral function in QCD}},
	author={Jan Horak and Jan M. Pawlowski and Nicolas Wink},
	journal={SciPost Phys.},
	volume={15},
	pages={149},
	year={2023},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.4.149},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.4.149},
}