Rates for non-perturbative processes in hot non-abelian plasma

Abstract

[Talk given at "Continuous Advances in QCD '98."] I give a simple physical picture of why the rate $\Gamma$ per unit volume of non-perturbative processes in hot non-Abelian plasmas (such as electroweak baryon number violation in the very early universe) depends on coupling as $\Gamma \sim {\alpha }^5{T}^4\ln (1/\alpha )$. The logarithmic dependence was recently discovered by Bodeker.

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