Deriving the Hard Thermal Loops of QCD from Classical Transport Theory

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31 March 1994

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9403403

Abstract

Classical transport theory is employed to analyze the hot quark-gluon plasma at the leading order in the coupling constant. A condition on the (covariantly conserved) color current is obtained. {}From this condition, the generating functional of hard thermal loops with an arbitrary number of soft external bosonic legs can be derived. Our approach, besides being more direct than alternative ones, shows that hard thermal loops are essentially classical.

Keywords

CLASSICAL TRANSPORT THEORY
HARD THERMAL LOOPS
TRANSPORT THEORY
THERMAL LOOPS
QCD

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Version 1, 1994-03-31, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 72 (22), 3461.

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