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  <dc:creator>ALTHERR, T.</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2012</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">&lt;jats:p&gt; This is a very basic introduction and short (and of course incomplete) overview of thermal field theory. In the first part, I introduce the thermal propagator at a very simple level and give the Feynman rules using the time-path contour method. In the second part, I give examples of these rules in scalar theory and discuss the origin of the thermal mass and other important effects as infrared divergences and phase transitions. In the third part, I outline the resummation program of Braaten and Pisarski. &lt;/jats:p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>https://sonar.ch/global/documents/86956</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1142/s0217751x93002216</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/0217-751X</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:source>International Journal of Modern Physics A. - World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt. - 1993, vol. 08, no. 32, p. 5605-5628</dc:source>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">Nuclear and High Energy Physics</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">Astronomy and Astrophysics</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">INTRODUCTION TO THERMAL FIELD THEORY</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501</dc:type>
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