Four-loop screened perturbation theory

Details Four-loop screened perturbation theory Four-loop screened perturbation theory

2008-05-29

arxiv.org/abs/0805.4478v3

Phys.Rev.D78:076008,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

34 pages, 6 figures, RevTeX

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.076008

We study the thermodynamics of massless phi-fourth theory using screened perturbation theory. In this method, the perturbative expansion is reorganized by adding and subtracting a thermal mass term in the Lagrangian. We calculate the free energy through four loops expanding in a double power expansion in m/T and g^2, where m is the thermal mass and g is the coupling constant. The expansion is truncated at order g^7 and the loop expansion is shown to have better convergence properties than the weak-coupling expansion. The free energy at order g^6 involves the four-loop triangle sum-integral evaluated by Gynther, Laine, Schroeder, Torrero, and Vuorinen using methods developed by Arnold and Zhai. The evaluation of the free energy at order g^7 requires the evaluation of a nontrivial three-loop sum-integral, which we calculate by the same methods.

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