Gluon plasmon frequency near the light cone Original Research Article

Thermal perturbation theory based on the resummation scheme by Braaten and Pisarski suffers from unscreened collinear singularities whenever outer momenta become light-like. A recently proposed improvement of the hard thermal loops by an additional resummation of an asymptotic mass promises to solve this problem. Here we present a detailed investigation of the next-to-leading order plasmon self-energy. It demonstrates the applicability and consistency of the improved scheme.