Francis, Anthony: Thermal dilepton rates from quenched lattice QCD : a study of thermal spectral functions in the continuum limit of quenched lattice QCD, at vanishing and [...]. 2011
Inhalt
- Preface
- Introduction and Motivation
- Foundations of Lattice Quantum Field Theory
- Lattice Quantum Field Theory
- Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics
- Fermion Discretization in Lattice QCD
- Connecting to Physics
- Parameters and Systematics
- The Phenomenology of Spectral Functions
- Spectral Functions in Non-Interacting Theory
- Free Continuum Spectral Functions
- Properties of the Free Continuum Spectral Function
- Free Discretized Spectral Functions
- Expectations for Interacting Theory
- Linear Response and Transport Coefficients
- Heavy Quark Diffusion from the Langevin Equation
- Light Quarks in a Boltzmann Gas
- Hard Thermal Loops and Alternative Approaches
- Lattice Methodology
- Lattice Correlation Functions and the Kernel
- Thermal Moments of the Correlation Function
- An Ill Posed Problem and its Bayesian Solution
- An Alternative Route
- The Vector Spectral Function at Vanishing Momentum
- The Vector SPF and Dilepton Rate in the Continuum at T1.45Tc
- The Spectral Function of the Time-Time Vector Correlator
- Spatial and Full Vector Correlation Functions
- Continuum Extrapolation of the Vector Correlation Function
- Computation of Thermal Moments
- Analyzing the Vector Correlator and computing the SPF
- The Thermal Dilepton Rate and Electrical Conductivity
- Temperature Dependence of the Vector SPF on the Lattice
- The Vector Spectral Function at Finite Momentum
- Analyzing the Vector Correlation Function at Finite Momentum
- The Time-Time Vector Channel and its Thermal Moments
- Consequences for the Spectral Functions at Finite Momentum
- Notes on the Pseudo Scalar and Other Spectral Functions
- The Pseudo Scalar Correlator and its Thermal Moments
- The Correlator Ratio at T1.45Tc
- The Continuum Extrapolation
- Thermal Moments of the Pseudo Scalar Correlator
- MEM analysis of the Pseudo Scalar Channel
- Midpoints of the Current Correlators at Finite Temperature
- Summary and Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Eigenständigkeitserklärung