We present a new truncation scheme for the Schwinger-Dyson equations of QCD that respects gauge invariance at any level of the dressed loop expansion. When applied to the gluon self-energy, it allows for its nonperturbative treatment without compromising the transversality of the solution, even when entire sets of diagrams (most notably the ghost loops) are omitted or treated perturbatively.

• Received 19 December 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.061702