Collective Phenomena in Gauge Theories. 1. The Plasmon Effect for Yang-Mills Fields

Mar, 1975
21 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 13 (1976) 2765
Report number:
  • EFI-75-8-REV,
  • EFI-75-8

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Abstract: (APS)
This is the first of a series of papers devoted to many-body phenomena in gauge theories. We assume that weak and electromagnetic interactions are described by a spontaneously broken gauge theory and that the strong interactions are described by an asymptotically free non-Abelian gauge theory. The implications of these assumptions for the behavior of matter at finite temperature and/or chemical potential are the subject of this series of papers. Briefly, the three main areas to which our results pertain are (1) renormalization of finite-temperature field theory, (2) the equation of state of strongly interacting matter at high densities in gauge theories, and (3) elementary-particle interactions in the early universe.
Note:
  • New Version
  • FIELD THEORY: GAUGE
  • FIELD THEORY: YANG-MILLS
  • PHOTON
  • FERMION
  • BOSON
  • SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING
  • TEMPERATURE
  • POSTULATED PARTICLE: PLASMON
  • ASTROPHYSICS
  • QUARK: CONFINEMENT