Aguilar, A. C.Soto Borrero, Feliciano Carlos deFerreira, M. N.Papavassiliou, J.Pinto Gómez, F.Roberts, Craig D.2023-11-282023-11-282023Aguilar, A. C., De Soto, F., Ferreira, M. N., Papavassiliou, J., Pinto-Gómez, F., Roberts, C. D., & Rodríguez-Quintero, J. (2023). Schwinger mechanism for gluons from lattice QCD. In Physics Letters B (Vol. 841, p. 137906). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2023.1379060370-26931873-2445 (electrónico)https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22649Continuum and lattice analyses have revealed the existence of a mass-scale in the gluon two-point Schwinger function. It has long been conjectured that this expresses the action of a Schwinger mechanism for gauge boson mass generation in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). For such to be true, it is necessary and sufficient that a dynamically-generated, massless, colour-carrying, scalar gluon+gluon correlation emerges as a feature of the dressed three-gluon vertex. Working with results on elementary Schwinger functions obtained via the numerical simulation of lattice-regularised QCD, we establish with an extremely high level of confidence that just such a feature appears; hence, confirm the conjectured origin of the gluon mass scale.engAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/Continuum Schwinger function methodsEmergence of massGluonsLattice Schwinger function methodsQuantum chromodynamicsSchwinger mechanism of gauge boson mass generationjournal article10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137906open access22 Física