Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-08-09
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
15 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
We discuss phenomenological tests for the frozen infrared behavior of the running coupling constant and gluon propagators found in some solutions of Schwinger-Dyson equations of the gluonic sector of QCD. We verify that several observables can be used in order to select the different expressions of alpha_s found in the literature. We test the effect of the nonperturbative coupling in the tau-lepton decay rate into nonstrange hadrons, in the rho vector meson helicity density matrix that are produced in the chi_{c2} --> rho rho decay, in the photon to pion transition form factor, and compute the cross sections for elastic proton-proton scattering and exclusive rho production in deep inelastic scattering. These quantities depend on the infrared behavior of the coupling constant at different levels, we discuss the reasons for this dependence and argue that the existent and future data can be used to test the approximations performed to solve the Schwinger-Dyson equations and they already seems to select one specific infrared behavior of the coupling.
Aguilar Arlene C.
Mihara Antonio
Natale A. A.
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