Analytic Properties of Thermal Corrected Boson Propagators

Abstract

We investigate the analytic properties of finite-temperature self-energies of bosons interacting with fermions at one-loop order. A simple boson-fermion model was chosen due to its interesting features of having two distinct couplings of bosons with fermions. This leads to a quite different analytic behavior of the bosons self-energies as the external momentum $K^{\mu }=(k^0,\vec{k})$ approaches zero in the two possible limits. It is shown that the plasmon and Debye masses are consistently obtained at the pole of the corrected propagator even when the self-energy is analytic at the origin in the frequency-momentum space.

Comments: 11 pages, no figures, revtex, typos corrected, two references included, to be published in Phys. Rev. D