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Electric and magnetic properties of hot gluons

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

The dielectric constant ε and magnetic permeability μ for gluon plasma are calculated from the one-loop gauge-invariant effective action. The real parts are gauge-fixing independent and agree with earlier work. The imaginary part of μ-1 is zero in any covariant background-field gauge, while the imaginary part of ε is gauge-fixing dependent and negative definite. This result indicates that there is no consistent perturbative description of gluonic plasmons on scale (g2T)-1.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2397-2399
Number of pages3
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume58
Issue number23
DOIs
StatePublished - 1987

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