Supersymmetric QED Plasma

TL;DR

This paper compares the collective excitations and collisional processes of N=1 supersymmetric QED plasma with standard QED plasma, finding them to be very similar in a weak coupling regime.

Contribution

It provides a systematic comparison of supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric QED plasmas, highlighting their similarities in collective and collisional properties.

Findings

Supersymmetric QED plasma exhibits similar collective excitations as standard QED plasma.

Collisional processes in supersymmetric plasma are comparable to those in non-supersymmetric plasma.

Both systems behave similarly in the weak coupling regime.

Abstract

We systematically compare the N=1 SUSY QED plasma to its non-supersymmetric counterpart which is QED plasma of electrons, positrons and photons. Collective excitations and collisional processes in the two systems are confronted to each other in a regime of small coupling. The collective and collisional characteristics of supersymmetric plasma are both very similar to those of QED plasma.