Perturbative and non-perturbative aspects non-Abelian Boltzmann-Langevin equation
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Description
We study the Boltzmann-Langevin equation which describes the dynamics of hot Yang-Mills fields with typical momenta of order of the magnetic screening scale g2T. It is transformed into a path integral and Feynman rules are obtained. We find that the leading log Langevin equation can be systematically improved in a well behaved expansion in log(1/g)-1. The result by Arnold and Yaffe that the leading log Langevin equation is still valid at next-to-leading-log order is confirmed. We also confirm their result for the next-to-leading-log damping coefficient, or color conductivity, which is shown to be gauge fixing independent for a certain class of gauges. The frequency scale g2T does not contribute to this result, but it does contribute, by power counting, to the transverse gauge field propagator. Going beyond a perturbative expansion we find 1-loop ultraviolet divergences which cannot be removed by renormalizing the parameters in the Boltzmann-Langevin equation
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Identifiers
- PII
- S0550321302008416;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B
- Journal Volume
- 647
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 512-538
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
- CODEN
- NUPBBO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Brazil
- INIS RN
- 35083889
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- FEYNMAN PATH INTEGRAL; FIELD THEORIES; GAUGE INVARIANCE; LANGEVIN EQUATION; PERTURBATION THEORY; PROPAGATOR; RENORMALIZATION; ULTRAVIOLET DIVERGENCES; YANG-MILLS THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- EQUATIONS; INTEGRALS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; PATH INTEGRALS
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.