Two-loop QCD gauge coupling at high temperatures

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1553-1569

  Laine, Mikko ^a   Schröder, York ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lattice Gauge Field Theories; NLO Computations; QCD; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944544322     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/03/067     Document Type: Article

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