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High Temperature QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

I discuss finite-temperature gauge theories as a framework to describe the quark-gluon plasma in the regime of high temperature where the gauge coupling is small, g<<1g << 1. I review recent progress in the understanding of the long-range physics, with emphasis on the collective phenomena and their consequences for the screening of the gauge interactions. I consider some of the infrared divergences of the perturbation theory, and discuss the physical mechanisms which remove these divergences.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9609223,
  title  = {High Temperature QCD},
  author = {Edmond Iancu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9609223},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

8 pages, LaTeX, Invited talk given at the XXXIth Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions, March 23 -- 30, 1996, Les Arcs, France