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arxiv: hep-ph/9311245 · v1 · submitted 1993-11-09 · ✦ hep-ph

Cancellation of Infrared Divergences in QED at Nonzero Temperature

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keywords gammadivergencesrealvirtualalphafirstinfraredradiation
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The radiation produced by a classical charged current coupled to a quantized $A_{\mu}$ is first computed. To each order in $\alpha$, all infrared divergences cancel between the virtual $\gamma$'s and the real $\gamma$'s that are absorbed from or emitted into the plasma. When all orders of perturbation theory are summed, the finite answer predicts a suppression of radiation with $\omega< \alpha T$. The analysis of QED then consists of two steps. First, a general probability at $T\neq 0$ is organized so that all the virtual $e^{\pm},\gamma$ are in the amplitudes and all the real $e^{\pm},\gamma$ are in the phase space integrations. Next, the cancellations of IR divergences between virtual and real are demonstrated.

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