RENORMALIZATION AND RADIATIVE-CORRECTIONS AT FINITE TEMPERATURE

Authors

JF Donoghue, University of Massachusetts AmherstFollow
BR Holstein, University of Massachusetts - AmherstFollow

Publication Date

1983

Journal or Book Title

PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Abstract

We discuss the renormalization prescription for fermions at finite temperature and describe the procedure for calculating radiative corrections. Novel features arise, such as a lack of explicit Lorentz invariance, 1/k2 singularities, and the absorption of soft photons from the background heat bath. The methods are illustrated by explicit calculation of the electron renormalization and the radiative corrections to H→e+e- (with H being spin zero) in finite-temperature QED.

Comments

Published version is located at http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v28/i2/p340_1

Pages

340-348

Volume

28

Issue

2

Recommended Citation

Donoghue, JF and Holstein, BR, "RENORMALIZATION AND RADIATIVE-CORRECTIONS AT FINITE TEMPERATURE" (1983). PHYSICAL REVIEW D. 218.
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