1993/11/08 by Edmond Iancu, Iancu, Edmond
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9311236
Talk given at the 3rd Workshop on Thermal Field Theories and their Applications, Aug. 93, Banff, Canada; 7 pages; SACLAY-T93/122
arxiv created 1993/11/08 · openalex publication_date 1993/11/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is shown that the long wavelength excitations of a quark-gluon plasma may be described as collective oscillations of self-consistent average fields to which the plasma particles couple. Their properties are obtained from a set of coupled mean field and kinetic equations, derived from the general Dyson-Schwinger equations, as the leading order in a systematic expansion in powers of the coupling. By solving the kinetic equations, one obtains in closed form the generating functionals for all the leading order amplitudes between soft quasiparticles, the so-called ``hard thermal loops''.