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HTL Perturbation Theory and QCD Thermodynamics

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QCD Perspectives on Hot and Dense Matter

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At sufficiently high temperature and/or density, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) should become accessible by perturbative methods due to asymptotic freedom. Thermal perturbation theory is however a surprisingly intricate subject, and it was only during the last decade that the necessary methodology has been developed, and this development is not yet completely finished. An important milestone was the hard-thermal-loop (HTL) resummation programme introduced in particular by Braaten and Pisarski [1] which generalized the static ring resummations that were known to be required in the calculation of thermo-static quantities since long [2, 3] to dynamic quantities such as quasiparticle properties as well as production and loss rates.

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Rebhan, A. (2002). HTL Perturbation Theory and QCD Thermodynamics. In: Blaizot, JP., Iancu, E. (eds) QCD Perspectives on Hot and Dense Matter. NATO Science Series, vol 87. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0267-7_10

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