Action for the hot gluon plasma based on the Chern-Simons theory

1992/01/31 by R. Efraty, Ravit Efraty, V. P. Nair · 7 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.68.2891

published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 68 (1992) 2891-2894 · (9 pages)

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Abstract

We show that the generating functional for hard thermal loops with external gluons in QCD is essentially given by the eikonal for a Chern-Simons gauge theory. This action, determined essentially by gauge-invariance arguments, also gives an efficient way of obtaining the hard thermal loop contributions without the more involved calculation of Feynman diagrams.

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• Topologically massive gauge theories

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