Dynamical quarks effects on the gluon propagation and chiral symmetry restoration

Abstract

We exploit the recent lattice results for the infrared gluon propagator with light dynamical quarks and solve the gap equation for the quark propagator. Chiral symmetry breaking and confinement (intimately tied with the analytic properties of QCD Schwinger functions) order parameters are then studied.Comment: Contribution to QCD-TNT-III: "From quarks and gluons to hadronic matter: A bridge too far?