Comment on ``Damping of energetic gluons and quarks in high-temperature QCD''

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1992-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9203211v1

Phys.Rev. D46 (1992) 482-483

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

5 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.46.482

Burgess and Marini have recently pointed out that the leading contribution to the damping rate of energetic gluons and quarks in the QCD plasma, given by $\gamma=c g^2\ln(1/g)T$, can be obtained by simple arguments obviating the need of a fully resummed perturbation theory as developed by Braaten and Pisarski. Their calculation confirmed previous results of Braaten and Pisarski, but contradicted those proposed by Lebedev and Smilga. While agreeing with the general considerations made by Burgess and Marini, I correct their actual calculation of the damping rates, which is based on a wrong expression for the static limit of the resummed gluon propagator. The effect of this, however, turns out to be cancelled fortuitously by another mistake, so as to leave all of their conclusions unchanged. I also verify the gauge independence of the results, which in the corrected calculation arises in a less obvious manner.

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