Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1993-06-03
Z.Phys. C60 (1993) 455-460
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
17 pages
Scientific paper
10.1007/BF01560043
: We examine again the problem of the damping rate of a moving heavy fermion in a hot plasma within the resummed perturbative theory of Pisarski and Braaten. The ansatz for its evaluation which relates it to the imaginary part of the fermion propagator pole in the framework of a self-consistent approach is critically analyzed. As already pointed out by various authors, the only way to define the rate is through additional implementation of magnetic screening. We show in detail how the ansatz works in this case and where we disagree with other authors. We conclude that the self-consistent approach is not satisfactory.
Peigne Stéphane
Pilon Eric
Schiff Dominique
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