Damping rate of plasmons and photons in a degenerate nonrelativistic plasma
Abstract
A calculation is presented of the plasmon and photon damping rates in a dense nonrelativistic plasma at zero temperature, following the resummation program of Braaten-Pisarski. At small soft momentum k, the damping is dominated by 3 2 scattering processes corresponding to double longitudinal Landau damping. The dampings are proportional to (α/vF)3/2 k2/m, where vF is the Fermi velocity.
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