Hamiltonian analysis of the effective action for hard thermal loops in QCD
Abstract
The effective action for hard thermal loops in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is related to a gauged Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten theory. Some of the technical issues of this approach are clarified and the Hamiltonian formulation is presented. The two-point correlator for the induced current in QCD is obtained; some simplifications of the dynamics of the longitudinal modes are also pointed out.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- September 1994
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9403146
- Bibcode:
- 1994PhRvD..50.4201N
- Keywords:
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- 12.38.Bx;
- 11.10.Wx;
- 12.38.Mh;
- Perturbative calculations;
- Finite-temperature field theory;
- Quark-gluon plasma;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 17 pages, CCNY-HEP 2/94, March 1994. (Plain TeX)