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A transport coefficient: the electrical conductivity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

I describe the lattice determination of the electrical conductivity of the quark gluon plasma. Since this is the first extraction of a transport coefficient with a degree of control over errors, I next use this to make estimates of other transport related quantities using simple kinetic theory formulae. The resulting estimates are applied to fluctuations, ultra-soft photon spectra and the viscosity. Dimming of ultra-soft photons is exponential in the mean free path, and hence is a very sensitive probe of transport.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0505006,
  title  = {A transport coefficient: the electrical conductivity},
  author = {Sourendu Gupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0505006},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Talk given in ICPAQGP 2005, SINP, Kolkata