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Gauge-Invariant Renormalization Group at Finite Temperature and Debye Screening

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

I describe an application of Wilson Renormalization group to the real time formalism of finite temperature field theory. The approach has two nice features: 1) the RG flow equations describe non-perturbatively the effect of thermal fluctuations only, and, 2) the flow is gauge invariant. I then describe the application of the method to the study of the gluon self-energy in SU(N), and present results for the computation of the Debye and magnetic screening masses.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9706544,
  title  = {Gauge-Invariant Renormalization Group at Finite Temperature and Debye Screening},
  author = {Massimo Pietroni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9706544},
  year   = {2007}
}

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5 pages (LaTeX) + 2 figures, To appear on the proceedings of "Strong and Electroweak Matter '97"