QED at Finite Temperature in the Coulomb Gauge

Details QED at Finite Temperature in the Coulomb Gauge QED at Finite Temperature in the Coulomb Gauge

1994-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9402222v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

15 pages, Latex, LTP-036-UPR

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We argue that calculations in QED at finite temperature are more conveniently carried out in the Coulomb gauge, in which only the physical photon degrees of freedom play a rol and are thermalized. We derive the photon propagator in this gauge for real-time finite temperature calculations and show that the four-fermion static Coulomb interaction that appears in the Lagrangian can be accounted for by suitably modifying the photon propagator. The Feynman rules of the theory are written in a manifestly covariant form, although they depend on the velocity 4-vector $u_\mu$ of the background medium. As a first step in showing the consistency and usefulness of this approach, we consider the one-loop calculation of the electron self-energy $\Sigma$. It is explicitly shown that the divergences that arise from the vacuum contribution to $\Sigma$ are independent of $u_\mu$, which implies that the counter terms that must be included in the Lagrangian are the same as those in the vacuum.

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