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Hard thermal loops with a background plasma velocity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-12-17 v1

Abstract

I consider the calculation of the two and three-point functions for QED at finite temperature in the presence of a background plasma velocity. The final expressions are consistent with Lorentz invariance, gauge invariance and current conservation, pointing to a straightforward generalization of the hard thermal loop formalism to this physical situation. I also give the resulting expression for the effective action and identify the various terms.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0207146,
  title  = {Hard thermal loops with a background plasma velocity},
  author = {D. Metaxas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0207146},
  year   = {2010}
}

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11 pages, no figures

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