Photon Damping in One-Loop HTL Perturbation Theory
Abstract
We determine the damping rates of slow-moving photons in next-to-leading order hard-thermal-loop perturbation of massless QED. We find both longitudinal and transverse rates finite, positive, and equal at zero momentum. Various divergences, light-cone and at specific momenta, but not infrared, appear and cancel systematically.
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