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Factorization of finite temperature graphs in thermal QED

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We extend our previous analysis of gauge and Dirac fields in the presence of a chemical potential. We consider an alternate thermal operator which relates in a simple way the Feynman graphs in QED at finite temperature and charge density to those at zero temperature but non-zero chemical potential. Several interesting features of such a factorization are discussed in the context of the thermal photon and fermion self-energies.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0601227,
  title  = {Factorization of finite temperature graphs in thermal QED},
  author = {Fernando T. Brandt and Ashok Das and Olivier Espinosa and Josif Frenkel and Silvana Perez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0601227},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages