Dimensionally regularized Polyakov loop correlators in hot QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Burnier, Y ^a   Laine, M ^a   Vepsalainen M ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Heavy quark physics; Lattice QCD; NLO computations; Thermal field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954960288     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2010)054     Document Type: Article

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