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Mass Expansions of Screened Perturbation Theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

The thermodynamics of massless phi^4-theory is studied within screened perturbation theory (SPT). In this method the perturbative expansion is reorganized by adding and subtracting a mass term in the Lagrangian. We analytically calculate the pressure and entropy to three-loop order and the screening mass to two-loop order, expanding in powers of m/T. The truncated m/T-expansion results are compared with numerical SPT results for the pressure, entropy and screening mass which are accurate to all orders in m/T. It is shown that the m/T-expansion converges quickly and provides an accurate description of the thermodynamic functions for large values of the coupling constant.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0105214,
  title  = {Mass Expansions of Screened Perturbation Theory},
  author = {Jens. O Andersen and Michael Strickland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0105214},
  year   = {2009}
}

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22 pages, 10 figures