1998/02/23 by Per Elmfors, Elmfors, Per
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9802398
5 pages, 1 figure, Latex, Proc. of Strong and electroweak matter '97, Short version of hep-ph/9608271
arxiv created 1998/02/23 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
The anomaly equation can be derived from the ultraviolet properties of quantum field theory and should, therefore, not depend on infrared properties, such as the presence of a thermal heat bath. There is also an infrared explanation of anomalies which is related to fermionic zero modes. I show how the anomaly equation can be satisfied in a high temperature plasma in spite of the fact that all propagating fermionic excitations have a thermal mass.