The puzzling infrared of QCD: The Landau gauge case

Michael Müller-Preussker

Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, Problems of modern theoretical and mathematical physics: Gauge theories and superstrings, Tome 272 (2011), pp. 202-211.

Résumé

In this contribution we present a short overview of the status of non-perturbative investigations of Landau gauge gluon and ghost propagators in Yang–Mills theories with special emphasis on lattice computations in the infrared region.

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