Chern-Simons and WZNW Theories and the Quark-Gluon Plasma

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1994-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9411220v1

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

31 pages, PlainTEX, 4 figures available upon request. Lectures presented at the Mt. Sorak Summer School, S. Korea, June 27- Ju

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Summation over hard thermal loops, by themselves and as insertions in higher order Feynman diagrams, is important in thermal perturbation theory for Quantum Chromodynamics, so that all contributions of a given order in the coupling constant can be consistently taken into account. I review some of the basic properties of hard thermal loops and how the generating functional for them is related to the eikonal for a Chern-Simons gauge theory, and using an auxiliary field, to the gauged Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten action. The Hamiltonian analysis of the effective action and a discussion of plasma waves are given. It is also pointed out that a possible expression for the magnetic mass term can be written in a closely related way.

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