Hard Thermal Loop -- theory and applications

Abstract

In this review, we present the key aspects of modern thermal perturbation theory based on the hard thermal loop (HTL) approximation, including its theoretical foundations and applications within quantum electrodynamics (QED) and quantum chromodynamics (QCD) plasmas. To maintain conciseness, we focus on scenarios in thermal equilibrium, examining a variety of physical quantities and settings. Specifically, we explore both bulk thermodynamic properties and real-time observables in high-temperature domains relevant to heavy-ion physics.

Review article; An invited review in "Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics", Elsevier

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• Equation of state and QCD transition at finite temperature
• Cold Quark Matter
• The theory and phenomenology of perturbative QCD based jet quenching
• Freeze-out Conditions in Heavy Ion Collisions from QCD Thermodynamics
• Susceptibilities and speed of sound from PNJL model
• The heavy-quark potential in an anisotropic plasma
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• Thermodynamics of the PNJL model with nonzero baryon and isospin chemical potentials
• Thermal production of relativistic Majorana neutrinos: Strong enhancement by multiple soft scattering
• Dynamical quasiparticles properties and effective interactions in the sQGP
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• NNLO hard-thermal-loop thermodynamics for QCD
• Instabilities of an anisotropically expanding non-Abelian plasma: 3D+3V discretized hard-loop simulations
• The pressure of deconfined QCD for all temperatures and quark chemical potentials
• Three-loop HTL gluon thermodynamics at intermediate coupling
• Curvature of the chiral pseudo-critical line in QCD
• Collisional Energy Loss of Non Asymptotic Jets in a QGP
• Z(3)-symmetric effective theory for SU(3) Yang-Mills theory at high temperature
• Fermionic Collective Modes of an Anisotropic Quark-Gluon Plasma
• Low Mass Thermal Dilepton Production at NLO in a Weakly Coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma
• Center-Symmetric Effective Theory for High-Temperature SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory
• Interpolation of hard and soft dilepton rates
• Wakes in a Collisional Quark-Gluon Plasma
• Energy gain of heavy quarks by fluctuations in the QGP
• Vector meson spectral function and dilepton production rate in a hot and dense medium within an effective QCD approach
• Three-loop HTL Free Energy for QED
• NNLO HTLpt predictions for the curvature of the QCD phase transition line
• Testing thermal photon and dilepton rates
• Low Mass Dilepton Rate from the Deconfined Phase
• Finite momentum meson correlation functions in a QCD plasma
• Gamma flashes from relativistic electron-positron plasma droplets
• Two-loop HTL-resummed thermodynamics for N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
• Relativistic Expansion of Electron-Positron-Photon Plasma Droplets and Photon Emission

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