Zhu, Yan: On the perturbative evaluation of thermal Green’s functions in the bulk and shear channels of Yang-Mills Theory. 2013
Inhalt
- Preface
- Introduction to thermal QCD
- Strong interactions at nonzero temperature
- QCD Lagrangian
- Running coupling and asymptotic freedom
- The partition function and its path integral representation
- Perturbative QCD
- Correlators and the spectral function
- Motivation: Bulk and shear viscosities of the QGP
- Viscosities and heavy ion physics
- Hydrodynamic description of the QGP
- Linear response theory
- Kinetic theory
- Bulk and shear channel correlators in Yang-Mills theory
- Setup and definitions
- Correlators to next-to-leading order
- UV expansion of the correlators
- OPE expansion
- Thermal spectral functions: Methods
- Bulk channel
- Matsubara sums and discontinuities
- Factorized powerlike integrals
- Factorized exponential integrals
- Phase space integrals
- Final result
- Shear channel
- Thermal spectral functions: Results
- Summary and conclusions
- Master integrals
- Integrands in the shear channel
- References
- Acknowledgements