1993/01/13 by Jean-Paul Blaizot, Jean-Paul BLAIZOT, Edmond Iancu +3 · 2 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.70.3376
published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 70 (1993) 3376-3379 · January 8, 1993; 8 pages; SPhT/93-1
arxiv created 1993/01/13 · openalex publication_date 1993/05/31 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We show that long-wavelength excitations of the quark-gluon plasma are described by simple kinetic equations which represent the exact equations of motion at leading order in g. Properties of the so-called ``hard thermal loops,'' i.e., the dominant contributions to amplitudes with soft external lines, find a natural explanation in this approach. In particular, their generating functional appear here as the effective action describing long-wavelength excitations of the plasma.