Anomalies at high temperature
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The anomaly equation can be derived from the ultraviolet properties of quantum field theory and should, therefore, not depend on infrared properties, such as the presence of a thermal heat bath. There is also an infrared explanation of anomalies which is related to fermionic zero modes. I show how the anomaly equation can be satisfied in a high temperature plasma in spite of the fact that all propagating fermionic excitations have a thermal mass.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9802398,
title = {Anomalies at high temperature},
author = {Per Elmfors},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9802398},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure, Latex, Proc. of Strong and electroweak matter '97, Short version of hep-ph/9608271