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Gluon transport equations, plasma oscillations, and screening

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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The gluon transport equations (Phys. Lett. 177B (1986) 402) are reconsidered to derive a consistent semiclassical limit. Introducing the color current of gluon fluctuations around a classical mean field, we calculate the color permeability function of a collisionless gluon plasma in linear response approximation. The dispersion relations and electric screening length agree with one-loop high temperature QCD results. We find no magnetic screening atO(g 2) and predict transverse magnetic plasma oscillations similar to electric ones. The extension to include particle production by a mean color field is shortly described.

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Elze, H.T. Gluon transport equations, plasma oscillations, and screening. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 38, 211–218 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574539

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