A brief overview of hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory

DOI10.1088/0253-6102/57/3/12zbMATH Open1247.81289arXiv1204.0260OpenAlexW2071763779MaRDI QIDQ2913605FDOQ2913605

Authors: Su Nan 

Publication date: 26 September 2012

Published in: Communications in Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The poor convergence of quantum field theory at finite temperature has been one of the main obstacles in the practical applications of thermal QCD for decades. Here we briefly review the progress of hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory (HTLpt) in reorganizing the perturbative expansion in order to improve the convergence. The quantum mechanical anharmonic oscillator is used as a simple example to show the breakdown of weak-coupling expansion, and variational perturbation theory is introduced as an effective resummation scheme for divergent weak-coupling expansions. We discuss HTLpt thermodynamic calculations for QED, pure-glue QCD, and QCD with N_f=3 up to three-loop order. The results suggest that HTLpt provides a systematic framework that can be used to calculate both static and dynamic quantities for temperatures relevant at LHC.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0260

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zbMATH Keywords

resummationthermal field theoryhard thermal loops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

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