2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/147874It is shown that by defining the Debye mass through the relevant pole of the static gluon propagator rather than the zero-momentum limit of the time-time component of the gluon self-energy, a gauge-independent result for the next-to-leading order correction can be derived upon resummation of hard-thermal-loop contributions. The result turns out to be logarithmically sensitive to the magnetic screening mass. [Talk given at the 3rd Workshop on Thermal Field Theories and their Applications, August 15-27, 1993, Banff, Alberta, Canada]8 p., LaTeX, BI-TP 93/52 (comment regarding lattice calculations added)High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - LatticeHigh Energy Physics - Theorytext