Scattering amplitudes at finite temperature

2002/07/09 by M. E. Carrington, Hou Defu, R. Kobes · 3 citations
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.67.025021

published as Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 025021 · 23 pages in Revtex, with 33 eps-figures

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Abstract

We present a simple set of rules for obtaining the imaginary part of a self-energy diagram at finite temperature as a product of tree amplitudes. These diagrams correspond to physical scattering amplitudes.

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