Particle and Astro-Particle Physics Seminars

On loop corrections in thermal particle production

by Mikko Laine (ITP U. Bern)

Friday, 21 September 2012 from to (Europe/Zurich)
at CERN ( 4-2-011 - TH common room )
Description
General aspects of thermal particle production from a relativistic medium are reviewed. In particular, a "hard" kinematic regime in which next-to-leading order corrections are of modest magnitude, is contrasted with a "soft" regime, in which it is a challenge to obtain a consistent leading-order result, and next-to-leading order corrections could be substantial. Cosmological applications are briefly mentioned.
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