Photon and gluon emission in relativistic plasmas

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 681-712

  Arnold, Peter ^a   Moore, Guy D ^b   Yaffe, Laurence G ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic Processes and Properties; QCD; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044449752     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/06/030     Document Type: Article

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