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Cancellation of Infrared Divergences in QED at Nonzero Temperature

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The radiation produced by a classical charged current coupled to a quantized AμA_{\mu} is first computed. To each order in α\alpha, all infrared divergences cancel between the virtual γ\gamma's and the real γ\gamma's that are absorbed from or emitted into the plasma. When all orders of perturbation theory are summed, the finite answer predicts a suppression of radiation with ω<αT\omega< \alpha T. The analysis of QED then consists of two steps. First, a general probability at T0T\neq 0 is organized so that all the virtual e±,γe^{\pm},\gamma are in the amplitudes and all the real e±,γe^{\pm},\gamma are in the phase space integrations. Next, the cancellations of IR divergences between virtual and real are demonstrated.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9311245,
  title  = {Cancellation of Infrared Divergences in QED at Nonzero Temperature},
  author = {H. Arthur Weldon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9311245},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Talk presented at the 3rd Workshop on Thermal Field Theories and their Applications, Banff, Alberta (August, 1993), 7 pages, plain TeX