Chern-Simons Theory and the Quark-Gluon Plasma
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The generating functional for hard thermal loops in QCD is important in setting up a resummed perturbation theory, so that all terms of a given order in the coupling constant can be consistently taken into account. It is also the functional which leads to a gauge invariant description of Debye screening and plasma waves in the quark-gluon plasma. We have recently shown that this functional is closely related to the eikonal for a Chern-Simons gauge theory. In this paper, this relationship is explored and explained in more detail, along with some generalizations.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9212068,
title = {Chern-Simons Theory and the Quark-Gluon Plasma},
author = {Ravit Efraty and V. P. Nair},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9212068},
year = {2009}
}
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28 pages (4 Feynman diagrams not included, available upon request)