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Pressure to order $g^8*log(g)$ in $\phi^4$-theory at weak coupling

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-17 v2

Abstract

We calculate the pressure of massless ϕ4\phi^4-theory to order g8log(g)g^8\log(g) at weak coupling. The contributions to the pressure arise from the hard momentum scale of order TT and the soft momentum scale of order gTgT. Effective field theory methods and dimensional reduction are used to separate the contributions from the two momentum scales: The hard contribution can be calculated as a power series in g2g^2 using naive perturbation theory with bare propagators. The soft contribution can be calculated using an effective theory in three dimensions, whose coefficients are power series in g2g^2. This contribution is a power series in gg starting at order g3g^3. The calculation of the hard part to order g6g^6 involves a complicated four-loop sum-integral that was recently calculated by Gynther, Laine, Schr\"oder, Torrero, and Vuorinen. The calculation of the soft part requires calculating the mass parameter in the effective theory to order g6g^6 and the evaluation of five-loop vacuum diagrams in three dimensions. This gives the free energy correct up to order g7g^7. The coefficients of the effective theory satisfy a set of renormalization group equations that can be used to sum up leading and subleading logarithms of T/gTT/gT. We use the solutions to these equations to obtain a result for the free energy which is correct to order g8log(g)g^8\log(g). Finally, we investigate the convergence of the perturbative series.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0903.4596,
  title  = {Pressure to order $g^8*log(g)$ in $\phi^4$-theory at weak coupling},
  author = {Jens O. Andersen and Lars Kyllingstad and Lars E. Leganger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.4596},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

29 pages and 12 figs. New version: we have pushed the calculations to g^8*log(g) using the renormalization group to sum up log(g) from higher orders. Published in JHEP

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