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Soft Thermal Loops in Scalar Quantum Electrodynamics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Scalar QED is used to study approximations in thermal field theory beyond the Hard Thermal Loop resummation scheme. For this purpose the photon self energy is calculated for external momenta of the order e^2T using Hard Thermal Loop resummed Green functions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9908460,
  title  = {Soft Thermal Loops in Scalar Quantum Electrodynamics},
  author = {Stefan Leupold and Markus H. Thoma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9908460},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, REVTEX, 2 PostScript figures, statement about Ref.[10] corrected