2013/07/25 by Yan Zhu, Zhu, Yan
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Superconducting Materials and Applications #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1307.6774
98 pages, 16 figures, PhD thesis
arxiv created 2013/07/25 · openalex publication_date 2013/07/25 · arxiv updated 2013/07/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this PhD thesis, I will review recent progress in perturbative studies of energy momentum tensor correlators in high-temperature Yang-Mills theory. After briefly introducing the necessary tools and physical motivation, I proceed to discuss the machinery developed for the extraction of next-to-leading order Operator Product Expansions and thermal spectral functions and to introduce the results obtained in the bulk and shear channels of Yang-Mills theory. Particular emphasis is placed on the comparison of the results with recent lattice and gauge/gravity calculations, as well as on discussing their use in extracting the corresponding transport coefficients from Euclidean lattice data.