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Hard-thermal-loop Resummation of the Free Energy of a Hot Quark-Gluon Plasma

Jens O. Andersen, Eric Braaten, Michael Strickland

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9908323

Abstract

The quark contribution to the free energy of a hot quark-gluon plasma is calculated to leading order in hard-thermal-loop (HTL) perturbation theory. This method selectively resums higher order corrections associated with plasma effects, such as screening, quasiparticles, and Landau damping. Comparing to the weak-coupling expansion of QCD, the error in the one-loop HTL free energy is of order alphas, but the large alphas(3/2) correction from QCD plasma effects is included exactly.

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