COVARIANT GAUGES AT FINITE TEMPERATURE

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LANDSHOFF, PV [1 ]
REBHAN, A [1 ]
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[1] ECOLE NORM SUPER,LAB ANNECY PHYS PARTICULES,PHYS THEOR LAB,ANNECY LE VIEUX,FRANCE
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10.1016/0550-3213(92)90089-T
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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A prescription is presented for real-time finite-temperature perturbation theory in covariant gauges, in which only the two physical degrees of freedom of the gauge-field propagator acquire thermal parts. The propagators for the unphysical degrees of freedom of the gauge field, and for the Faddeev-Popov ghost field, are independent of temperature. This prescription is applied to the calculation of the one-loop gluon self-energy and the two-loop interaction pressure, and is found to be simpler to use than the conventional one.
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