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Report number	hep-ph/0010164
Title	New Developments and Applications of Thermal Field Theory
Author(s)	Thoma, Markus H. (CERN)
Publication	2000
Imprint	16 Oct 2000
Number of pages	46
Presented at	10th Jyvaskyla Summer School, Jyvaskyla, Finland, 31 Jul - 18 Aug 2000
Subject category	Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract	The lecture provides an introduction to thermal field theory and its applications to the physics of the quark-gluon plasma, possibly created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. In particular the Hard Thermal Loop resummation technique, providing a consistent perturbative description of relativistic, high-temperature plasmas is introduced. Using this method interesting quantities of the quark-gluon plasma (damping rates, energy loss, photon and dilepton production) are discussed. Furthermore recent developments on non-equilibrium field theory, which are relevant for high-energy heavy ion physics, are presented.
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