Two-loop hard thermal loops for vector bosons in general models

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2023)135MaRDI QIDQ6134716zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andreas Ekstedt

Publication date 25 July 2023

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04894

zbMATH Keywords

resummationthermal field theoryeffective field theories of QCDfinite temperature or finite density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

Abstract: Hard thermal loops describe how soft gauge fields are screened and damped in hot plasmas. As such they are used to calculate transport coefficients, Sphaleron rates, equations of state, and particle production. However, most calculations are done using one-loop self-energies. And two-loop contributions can be large. To that end this paper provides vector two-loop self-energies for generic models: Any scalar, fermion, or vector representation; and all possible renormalizable terms. Several examples are given to showcase the results. Two-loop results for higher-point functions are also given.

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