Universal scaling of gluon and ghost propagators in the infrared

Understand

A universal behavior is predicted for ghost and gluon propagators in the infrared.

• The universal behavior is shown to be a signature of a one-loop approximation and emerges naturally by the massive expansion that predicts universal analytical functions for the inverse dressing functions that do not depend on any parameter or color number.
• By a scaling of units and by adding an integration constant, all lattice data, for different color numbers (and even quark content for the ghosts), collapse on the same universal curves predicted by the massive expansion.