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High Temperature QCD

Edmond Iancu

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9609223

Abstract

I discuss finite-temperature gauge theories as a framework to describe the quark-gluon plasma in the regime of high temperature where the gauge coupling is small, g << 1. I review recent progress in the understanding of the long-range physics, with emphasis on the collective phenomena and their consequences for the screening of the gauge interactions. I consider some of the infrared divergences of the perturbation theory, and discuss the physical mechanisms which remove these divergences.

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