https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13231-5
Regular Article –Theoretical Physics
On the conformal limit of a QED-inspired model
1
CFisUC, Departament of Physics, University of Coimbra, 3004-516, Coimbra, Portugal
2
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, DCTA, 12228-900, São José dos Campos, Brazil
Received:
30
June
2024
Accepted:
11
August
2024
Published online:
23
August
2024
A conformal invariant QED-inspired model is solved for a general covariant linear gauge using the Dyson–Schwinger equations for the propagators assuming a pure vector like interaction. The leading corrections to the asymptotic solutions and the exponents, that characterize the corrections to each of the two fermion propagator functions, are computed as a function of the coupling and gauge fixing parameter . For the scalar component of the fermion propagator our findings generalizes for linear covariant gauges previous results found in the literature and reproduce the outcome of the perturbative analysis of quenched QED in the Landau gauge. Our solution for the exponent associated with vector component of the fermion propagator is new and, in the weak coupling regime, agrees with the estimation based on the perturbative analysis of quenched QED. Of the two critical exponents describing the conformal limit of the vector interaction, one of them is, in QED, associated with the regime where chiral symmetry is broken dynamically, which demands one mass scale, namely the Miransky scaling. A second mass scale has to be introduced at larger coupling constants and is associated with a change on the nature of the fermion wave function. This provides one example, that it is possible to find two interwoven cycles in Quantum Field Theory, albeit in a truncated framework, as it is known in the quantum few-body problem in the limit of a zero-range interaction.
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