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An elementary stringy estimate of transport coefficients of large temperature QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Modeling QCD at large temperature with a simple holographic five dimensional theory encoding minimal breaking of conformality, allows for the calculation of all the transport coefficients, up to second order, in terms of a single parameter. In particular, the shear and bulk relaxation times are provided. The result follows by deforming the AdS background with a scalar dual to a marginally relevant operator, at leading order in the deformation parameter.

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@article{arxiv.1006.4634,
  title  = {An elementary stringy estimate of transport coefficients of large temperature QCD},
  author = {Francesco Bigazzi and Aldo L. Cotrone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.4634},
  year   = {2010}
}

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11 pages; v2: comments and references added