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New Developments and Applications of Thermal Field Theory
Markus H. Thoma
The lecture provides an introduction to thermal field theory and its applications to the physics of the quark-gluon plasma, possibly created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. I…
Hadron Correlators in the Deconfined Phase
F. Karsch, M. G. Mustafa, M. H. Thoma
Temporal meson correlators and their spectral functions are calculated in the deconfined phase using the hard thermal loop resummation technique. The spectral functions exhibit str…
Van Hove Singularities in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Markus H. Thoma
General arguments as well as different approximations for the in-medium quark propagator in a quark-gluon plasma lead to quark dispersion relations that exhibit a minimum in one br…
Neutrino-electron processes in a strongly magnetized thermal plasma
Stephen J. Hardy, Markus H. Thoma
We present a new method of calculating the rate of neutrino-electron interactions in a strong magnetic field based on finite temperature field theory. Using this method, in which t…
Finite Temperature Meson Correlation Functions in HTL Approximation
F. Karsch, M. G. Mustafa, M. H. Thoma
We calculate temporal correlators and their spectral functions with meson quantum numbers in the deconfined phase of QCD using the hard thermal loop (HTL) approximation for the qua…
Photon-Photon Interaction in a Photon Gas
Markus H. Thoma
Using the effective Lagrangian for the low energy photon-photon interaction the lowest order photon self energy at finite temperature and in non-equilibrium is calculated within th…