Hard thermal loops and QCD thermodynamics
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These lectures give an introduction to thermal perturbation theory, hard thermal loops, and their use in a nonperturbative, approximately self-consistent resummation of the thermodynamical potentials of quantum chromodynamics.
26 pages, 3 figures. Lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute ``QCD perspectives on hot and dense matter'', August 6-18, 2001, in Cargèse, Corsica, France
26 pages, 3 figures. Lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute ``QCD perspectives on hot and dense matter'', August 6-18, 2001, in Cargèse, Corsica, France