Contrasting real time dynamics with screening phenomena at finite temperature
Sep, 1995
26 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 53 (1996) 7270-7285
e-Print:
- hep-ph/9509360 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- MIT-CTP-2359A,
- INFN-CA-TH-94-9
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Abstract:
We discuss the interpretation of Euclidean correlation functions at finite temperature () and their relationship with the corresponding real-time Green's functions. The soluble 2+1 dimensional Gross-Neveu model in the large- limit is used throughout as a working example. First, the real-time bound state, identified as an elementary excitation at finite , is solved. The bound state mass, the dispersion relation at low momenta, the coupling constant and decay constant are calculated. To characterize the structure of the bound state the on-shell form factor is carefully introduced and calculated. Then we examine the corresponding screening state and contrast the screening mass, coupling constant, decay constant and the screening Bethe-Salpeter amplitude with the real-time quantities. We find that, although they can be used as qualitative indicators in the low- regime, the screening states at finite in general do not reflect the properties of the corresponding real-time bound states. Besides, other relevant issues, such as the subtlety of the real-time manifestation of conservation laws due to some internal symmetries at , the temperature dependence of the pseudoscalar spectral function and its sum rule, and the high- limit of the screening state and its implications to the dimensional reduction, are also discussed in detail.- 11.55.Hx
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- quantum chromodynamics
- finite temperature
- correlation function
- propagator
- Gross-Neveu model
- dimension: 3
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