On Non-Abelian Thomas-Fermi Screening

Abstract

The Thomas-Fermi screening of non-Abelian gauge fields by fermions or screening of gluon fields in quark matter is discussed. It is described by an effective mass term which is, as with hard thermal loops, related to the eikonal for a Chern-Simons theory and the Wess-Zumino-Witten action.

7 pages, plain Tex, no figures; one reference added, note added at the end

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