Plasmon interactions in the quark-gluon plasma

TL;DR

This paper develops a Hamiltonian framework for analyzing plasmon interactions in the quark-gluon plasma, enabling improved perturbation theory with resummation of hard thermal loops.

Contribution

It introduces a novel Hamiltonian approach to Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature focusing on plasmon interactions and resummation techniques.

Findings

Provides a Hamiltonian formulation for plasmon interactions.

Enables perturbation theory with resummation of hard thermal loops.

Facilitates better understanding of quark-gluon plasma dynamics.

Abstract

Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature is rewritten as a theory of plasmons which provides a Hamiltonian framework for perturbation theory with resummation of hard thermal loops.