Some Applications of Thermal Field Theory to Quark-Gluon Plasma

Abstract

The lecture provides a brief introduction of thermal field theory within imaginary time formalism, the Hard Thermal Loop perturbation theory and some of its application to the physics of the quark-gluon plasma, possibly created in relativistic heavy ion collisions.

Comments: 17 pages, 12 figures : Lectures given in "Workshop on Hadron Physics" during March 7-17, 2005, Puri, India