Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-10-11
Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 045020
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Latex, 29 pgs., uses axodraw.sty; revised version with updated references, and typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.045020
The one loop effective action in quantum field theory can be expressed as a quantum mechanical path integral over world lines, with internal symmetries represented by Grassmanian variables. In this paper, we develop a real time, many body, world line formalism for the one loop effective action. In particular, we study hot QCD and obtain the classical transport equations which, as Litim and Manuel have shown, reduce in the appropriate limit to the non-Abelian Boltzmann-Langevin equation first obtained by B\"{o}deker. In the Vlasov limit, the classical kinetic equations are those that correspond to the hard thermal loop effective action. We also discuss the imaginary time world line formalism for a hot $\phi^4$ theory, and elucidate its relation to classical transport theory.
Jalilian--Marian Jamal
Jeon Sangyong
Venugopalan Raju
Wirstam Jens
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