Mass Generation in Finite Temperature {QED}
Jan, 19825 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 115 (1982) 252-256
- Published: 1982
Report number:
- CUTP-82-5
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Quantum electrodynamics at finite temperature is studied from the point of view of mass generation. Using Ueda's definition of the temperature-dependent mass of the particle on its mass shell at zero temperature and the real time formalism, results obtained by earlier workers are rederived in a manifestly gauge invariant fashion. Some cosmological implications of the plasmon effect are discussed.- QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
- field theory: finite temperature
- GAUGE FIELD THEORY: MASS GENERATION
- MASS GENERATION: GAUGE FIELD THEORY
- GAUGE FIELD THEORY: VACUUM POLARIZATION
- VACUUM POLARIZATION: GAUGE FIELD THEORY
- PHOTON: PROPAGATOR
- ELECTRON: MASS
- MASS: ELECTRON
- CHARGE: SCREENING
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