Hard Thermal Loops in Chiral Perturbation Theory

Abstract

It is shown how the hard thermal loop approximation can be used in chiral perturbation theory to study some thermal properties of Goldstone bosons. Hard thermal effects are first studied in the non-linear sigma model. Then those results are used to obtain the thermal corrections to the transverse and longitudinal gauge field masses in the electroweak theory in the limit of a strongly interacting Higgs boson.

Comments: 7 pages; Talk given at the 5th International Workshop on Thermal Field Theories and their Applications, Regensburg (Germany), August 1998