Introduction to thermal field theory

DOI10.1142/S0217751X93002216MaRDI QIDQ2775156zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors T. Altherr

Publication date 26 February 2002

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9307277

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

Abstract: This is intended to be a very basic introduction and short (and of course incomplete) overview of thermal field theory. In the first part, I introduce the thermal propagator at a very simple level and give the Feynman rules using the time-path contour method. In the second part, I give examples of these rules in scalar theory and discuss the origin of the thermal mass and other important effects as infrared divergences and phase transitions. In the third part, I outline the resummation program of Braaten and Pisarski.

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