The Secret Chern-Simons Action for the Hot Gluon Plasma

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28 January 1992

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

We show that the generating functional for hard thermal loops with external gluons in QCD is essentially given by the eikonal for a Chern-Simons gauge theory. This action, determined essentially by gauge invariance arguments, also gives an efficient way of obtaining the hard thermal loop contributions without the more involved calculation of Feynman diagrams.

Keywords

SIMONS ACTION
HARD THERMAL
THERMAL LOOP
CHERN SIMONS
SECRET CHERN
HOT GLUON
GLUONS
QCD

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Version 1, 1992-01-28, ArXiv
Version 2, 1992-02-07, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 68 (19), 2891.

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