The paper delivers the first complete non-redundant dimension-six operator basis for SMEFT at finite temperature using the Hilbert series on R^3 x S^1.
Next-to-leading order thermal photon production in a weakly coupled quark-gluon plasma
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We compute the next-to-leading order O(g) correction to the thermal photon production rate in a QCD plasma. The NLO contributions can be expressed in terms of gauge invariant condensates on the light cone, which are amenable to novel sum rules and Euclidean techniques. We expect these technologies to be generalizable to other NLO calculations. For the phenomenologically interesting value of alpha_s=0.3, the NLO correction represents a 20% increase and has a functional form similar to the LO result.
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HTL computation of soft axion rates shows interpolation between k=0 and k≈ω, raising ΔN_eff from ~0.03 to ~0.04 for light QCD axions at fa=4×10^8 GeV.
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Finite-temperature operator basis on $\mathbb{R}^3 \times S^1$ for SMEFT
The paper delivers the first complete non-redundant dimension-six operator basis for SMEFT at finite temperature using the Hilbert series on R^3 x S^1.
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Energy and momentum dependence of the soft-axion interaction rate
HTL computation of soft axion rates shows interpolation between k=0 and k≈ω, raising ΔN_eff from ~0.03 to ~0.04 for light QCD axions at fa=4×10^8 GeV.