Mogliacci, Sylvain: Probing the finite density equation of state of QCD via resummed perturbation theory. 2014
Inhalt
- Introduction
- Aspects of thermal field theory
- Path integral representation of the partition function
- Perturbative evaluation of the partition function
- Renormalization and the running of the coupling
- Hot and dense thermodynamics
- Bulk thermodynamics and fundamental relations
- Thermodynamic consistency
- Correlations and fluctuations of conserved charges
- Resummed perturbative thermal QCD
- Naive weak coupling expansion in thermal QCD
- Resummation inspired by dimensional reduction
- Hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory
- Exact leading order hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory
- Transverse gluon contribution to the pressure
- Longitudinal gluon contribution to the pressure
- Quark contribution to the pressure
- Isolating the divergences and renormalizing the result
- Exact renormalized one-loop HTLpt pressure
- Mass expansion and truncation of the result
- Analyzing the results
- Conclusions and outlook
- Notation and useful relations
- EQCD matching coefficients
- One-loop truncated HTL master sum-integrals
- Bibliography