Finite temperature corrections to fleid theory: Electron mass and magnetic moment, and vacuum energy

✍ Scribed by Paul H Cox; William S Hellman; Asim Yildiz

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 813 KB
• Volume: 154
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-4916
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(84)90143-x

✦ Synopsis

A finite temperature formalism which maintains Lorentz covariance is rederived and compared to other approaches.

It is used to obtain the order-a temperature shifts in the electron mass and magnetic moment. vacuum energy. The mass and magnetic moment shifts, for kT<f m. are of order a(kT/m)* and hence beyond the present experimental observation limits. An explicit form for the general temperature mass shift is obtained.