Hard thermal loops for soft or collinear external momenta

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Besak, Denis ^a   Bödeker, Dietrich ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

QCD; Thermal field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954997201     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)007     Document Type: Article

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