On the dispersion of fundamental particles in QCD and 𝒩 = 4 Super Yang-Mills theory

2009/06/30 by Paul M. Chesler, P. M. Chesler, A. Gynther +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/003

published as JHEP 0909:003,2009 · 41 pages, 8 figures; v2 to be published in JHEP, with one table added to summarize results

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Abstract

We study thermal corrections to the dispersion relations of massive fundamental particles immersed in weakly coupled non-Abelian plasmas. The cases covered include quarks in the QCD (quark-gluon) plasma, as well as N=2 quarks and scalars in an N=4 Super Yang-Mills plasma. We perform the calculations to leading order in a weak coupling expansion, and consider all mass scales of the fundamental fields, ranging from massless particles all the way to bare masses parametrically larger than the temperature.

Citations

• Fermion mass at next-to-leading order in the hard thermal loop effective theory
• Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd ed.
• Classical Electrodynamics

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