Some Applications of Thermal Field Theory to Quark-Gluon Plasma

Abstract

The lecture provides a brief introduction of thermal field theory within imaginary time formalism, the Hard Thermal Loop perturbation theory and some of its application to the physics of the quark-gluon plasma, possibly created in relativistic heavy ion collisions.

17 pages, 12 figures : Lectures given in "Workshop on Hadron Physics" during March 7-17, 2005, Puri, India

References in corpus (4)

• Quark number susceptibilities from HTL-resummed thermodynamics
• A Lattice Calculation of Thermal Dilepton Rates
• Quark Number Susceptibility in Hard Thermal Loop Approximation
• Meson correlation functions in a QCD plasma