# Collisional energy loss of fast charged particles in relativistic plasmas

@article{Thoma2000CollisionalEL,
title={Collisional energy loss of fast charged particles in relativistic plasmas},
author={Markus H. Thoma},
journal={Journal of Physics G},
year={2000},
volume={26},
pages={1507-1514}
}
• M. Thoma
• Published 2 March 2000
• Physics
• Journal of Physics G
Following an argument by Kirzhnits we derive an exact expression for the collisional energy loss of a fast charged particle in a relativistic plasma using quantum field-theoretical language. We compare this result to perturbative calculations of the collisional energy loss of an energetic electron or muon in an electron-positron plasma and of an energetic parton in the quark-gluon plasma.
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