A renormalization group approach for QCD in a strong magnetic field

May 20, 2013
7 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 726 (2013) 839-845
  • Published: Nov 4, 2013
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Report number:
  • BI-TP-2013-12

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A Wilsonian renormalization group approach is applied, in order to include effects of the higher Landau levels for quarks into a set of renormalized parameters for the lowest Landau level (LLL), plus a set of operators made of the LLL fields. Most of the calculations can be done in a model-independent way with perturbation theory for hard gluons, thanks to form factors of quark–gluon vertices that arise from the Ritus bases for quark fields. As a part of such renormalization program, we compute the renormalized quark self-energy at 1-loop, including effects from all higher orbital levels. The result indicates that the higher orbital levels cease to strongly affect the LLL at a rather small magnetic field of (0.1–0.3) GeV2 .
Note:
  • 15 pages, 5 figures: v2) published version for PLB, typos were corrected, differences from the previous RG studies are emphasized
  • magnetic field: high
  • quark: propagator
  • renormalization group
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • perturbation theory
  • renormalization
  • form factor
  • quark gluon
  • gluon