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arxiv: 1105.3054 · v1 · pith:BQ7UCLWBnew · submitted 2011-05-16 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-th

Two Loop Low Temperature Corrections to Electron Self Energy

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keywords looptemperaturetimecorrectionselectronintegrationslimitmass
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We recalculate the two loop corrections in the background heat bath using real time formalism. The procedure of the integrations of loop momenta with dependence on finite temperature before the momenta without it, has been followed. We determine the mass and wavefunction renormalization constants in the low temperature limit of QED, for the first time with this preferred order of integrations. The correction to electron mass and spinors in this limit is important in the early universe at the time of primordial nucleosynthesis as well as in astrophysics.

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