Next-to-leading order thermal spectral functions in the perturbative domain

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Laine, M ^a   Vuorinen, A ^a   Zhu, Y ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lattice Gauge Field Theories; NLO Computations; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053156750     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2011)084     Document Type: Article

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