Resummation in hot field theories

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2004.09.017zbMATH Open1072.81061arXivhep-ph/0404164OpenAlexW2049773438MaRDI QIDQ2484463FDOQ2484463

Authors: Jens O. Andersen, Michael Strickland 

Publication date: 1 August 2005

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There has been significant progress in our understanding of finite-temperature field theory over the past decade. In this paper, we review the progress in perturbative thermal field theory focusing on thermodynamic quantities. We first discuss the breakdown of naive perturbation theory at finite temperature and the need for an effective expansion that resums an infinite class of diagrams in the perturbative expansion. This effective expansion which is due to Braaten and Pisarski, can be used to systematically calculate various static and dynamical quantities as a weak-coupling expansion in powers of g. However, it turns that the weak-coupling expansion for thermodynamic quantities are useless unless the coupling constant is very small. We critically discuss various ways of reorganizing the perturbative series for thermal field theories in order to improve its convergence. These include screened perturbation theory (SPT), hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory (HTLPT), the Phi-derivable approach, dimensionally reduced (DR) SPT, and the DR Phi-derivable approach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0404164

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zbMATH Keywords

perturbation theorythermodynamicsquantum chromodynamicsquark-gluon plasmafinite temperature field theoryresummation of perturbation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

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