Collective Excitations in Thermal QED_{3+1}: Survival of the Fittest

dc.creatorTyutin, I. V.
dc.creatorZeitlin, Vadim
dc.date1998-10-08
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:25:19Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T04:25:19Z
dc.descriptionThe spectrum of collective fermionic excitations in a finite temperature QED_{3+1} is studied in different regimes. It is shown that within the standard perturbation approach the one-loop dispersion equation, besides the ordinary one-particle excitation, has four new solutions. The additional excitations are gauge-dependent and two of them have nonphysical signs of residues in the propagator poles. The temperature evolution of the solutions is investigated and it is shown that the use of effective propagators leaves no more than one additional mode which becomes propagating at $T \bolpor 10M$, when the gauge invariance is restored. The other three modes, including those with nonphysical residues in the propagator poles, are always strongly damped, thus the thermal effects do not produce pathologies in QED_{3+1}.
dc.descriptionLaTeX, 17 pages, 6 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9810058
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9810058
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/55708
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleCollective Excitations in Thermal QED_{3+1}: Survival of the Fittest
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