Collision Terms from Fluctuations in the HTL Theory for the Quark-Gluon Plasma

1999/03/23 by M. A. Valle Basagoiti, Basagoiti, M. A. Valle
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9903462

9 pages, no figures

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Abstract

Starting from the kinetic formulation of the hard thermal loop effective theory, we have (re)derived the collision terms for soft modes of order g² T log(1/g) by averaging the statistical fluctuations in the plasma.

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