On Effective Field Theories at Finite Temperature
| dc.creator | Andersen, J. O. | |
| dc.date | 1997-09-12 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:02:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:02:25Z | |
| dc.description | Chapter one is devoted to a study of fermions and bosons in two spatial dimensions in external electromagnetic fields. The effectve action is calculated by integrating out the matter fields. In chapter two, I investigate the resummation program of Braaten and Pisarski. I calculate the screening mass squared and the free energy in Yukwava theory to two and three-loop order, respectively, in resummed perturbation theory. The main part of the present work is on effective field theories at finite temperature. I discuss the concepts of dimensional reduction, modern renormalization theory, and renormalizable field theories (``fundamental theories'') versus non-renormalizable theories (``effective theories''). Two methods for constructing effective three dimensional field theories are discussed. The first is based on the effective potential, and is applied to field theory with $N$ charged U(N) symmetric scalar coupled to an Abelian gauge field. The second method is an effective field theory approach based on diagrammatical methods, recently developed by Braaten and Nieto. I apply the methods to various problems in spinor and scalar QED. | |
| dc.description | PH. D. thesis June 1997, 132 pages, LATEX, 60 figures appear in text | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9709331 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9709331 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/47221 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | On Effective Field Theories at Finite Temperature | |
| dc.type | text |