Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-10-27
Phys.Rev.D75:045019,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
15 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.045019
We study next-to-leading order contributions to the soft static fermion dispersion relation in hot QED. We derive an expression for the complete next-to-leading order contribution to the retarded fermion self-energy. The real and imaginary parts of this expression give the next-to-leading order contributions to the mass and damping rate of the fermionic quasi-particle. Many of the terms that are expected to contribute according to the traditional power counting argument are actually subleading. We explain why the power counting method over estimates the contribution from these terms. For the electron damping rate in QED we obtain: $\gamma_{QED} = \frac{e^2 T}{4\pi}(2.70)$. We check our method by calculating the next-to-leading order contribution to the damping rate for the case of QCD with two flavours and three coulours. Our result agrees with the result obtained previously in the literature. The numerical evaluation of the nlo contribution to the mass is left to a future publication.
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