Photon emission from ultrarelativistic plasmas

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1-56

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

^a University of Virginia Charlottesville ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744773214     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/11/057     Document Type: Article

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