Calculation of the gluon damping rate in hot QCD

May, 1990
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 42 (1990) 2156-2160
Report number:
  • BNL-44553,
  • NUHEP-TH-90-15

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Abstract: (APS)
We present a complete calculation of the gluon damping rate at zero momentum to leading order in the QCD coupling constant g. All terms of leading order in g are included by the resummation of an infinite subset of higher-loop diagrams. At zero momentum, the damping rates for transverse gluons and plasmons are equal: the result is γ≃+0.264013g2T, where T is the temperature. The sign is positive, which implies that the quark-gluon plasma is perturbatively stable.
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • temperature: high
  • perturbation theory: higher-order
  • gluon: propagator
  • gluon: damping
  • gluon: transverse
  • renormalization
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • stability
  • numerical calculations
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