https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-13984-7
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
On the momentum space structure of the quark propagator
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:
13
June
2024
Accepted:
24
February
2025
Published online:
12
March
2025
The structure of the quark propagator in momentum space is explored taking into account non-perturbative QCD dynamics constraints for the quark spectral densities derived previously. We assume that the scalar and vector component of the quark propagator share a simple pole but not its residuum, together with other structures. Furthermore, a connection between the poles of the quark propagator and the zeros of the quark wave function 
is established. Asymptotic scaling laws for the representation of the quark propagator, after removing the shared pole, are also derived. The confrontation of our results with lattice data for the full QCD quark propagator data are in good agreement. Exploring the link with the lattice data and looking at the Bethe–Salpeter vertex and amplitude, in the chiral limit, we are able to provide estimations for these quantities, for 
and for the shared pole mass. The pole mass reproduces the constituent quark mass used in the quark models.
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