Kinetic equations for long wavelength excitations of the quark - gluon plasma
Jan, 19937 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 70 (1993) 3376-3379
e-Print:
- hep-ph/9301236 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- SACLAY-SPH-T-93-1
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Abstract:
We show that longwavelength excitations of the quark-gluon plasma are described by simple kinetic equations which represent the exact equations of motion at leading order in . Properties of the so-called ``hard thermal loops'', i.e. the dominant contributions to amplitudes with soft external lines, find in this approach a natural explanation. In particular, their generating functional appears here as the effective action describing long wavelength excitations of the plasma.- nucleus nucleus: nuclear reaction
- scattering: heavy ion
- heavy ion: scattering
- quark gluon: plasma
- kinematics
- effective action
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