Transport coefficients in large Nf gauge theory: Testing hard thermal loops

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2001, Pages

  Moore, Guy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

1 n expansion; Physics of the early universe; Thermal field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744778780     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/05/039     Document Type: Article

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