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Screened perturbation theory at four loops

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-03-19 v1

Abstract

We study the thermodynamics of massless phi-fourth theory using screened perturbation theory, which is a way to systematically reorganise the perturbative series. The free energy and pressure are calculated through four loops in a double expansion in powers of g^2 and m/T, where m is a thermal mass of order gT. The result is truncated at order g^7. We find that the convergence properties are significantly improved compared to the weak-coupling expansion.

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@article{arxiv.0810.2623,
  title  = {Screened perturbation theory at four loops},
  author = {Lars Kyllingstad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2623},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Talk given at Strong and Electroweak Matter 2008, Amsterdam, Aug. 25-29 2008. 4 pages, 1 figure

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