Eur. Phys. J. D (2012) 66: 244
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2012-30212-4

Regular Article

Comparison of quasiparticle models in the context of relativistic (e, e⁺, γ) plasma

Department of Physics, University of Calicut, Kerala 673635, India

^a e-mail: psimji@gmail.com

Received: 30 March 2012
Received in final form: 26 June 2012
Published online: 28 September 2012

Abstract

The two widely studied thermodynamically consistent quasiparticle models are compared by studying the statistics and thermodynamics of relativistic plasma consists of (e, e⁺, γ). We use different density dependent dispersion relation for electron and photon with the requirment that at high temperature thermal masses go to that of corresponding perturbative results and do the calculation self-consistently. We further compare our results with previous results.