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Infrared Sensitivity in Damping Rate for Very Soft Moving Fermions in Finite Temperature QED

A. Abada, K. Bouakaz

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0209246

Abstract

We calculate the fermion damping rate to second order in powers of the external momentum p in the context of QED at finite temperature using the hard-thermal-loop (HTL) summation scheme. We find that the coefficient of order p2 is divergent in the infrared whereas the two others are finite. This result suggests that the htl-based pertubation is infrared sensitive at next-to-leading order.

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