Building a testable shear viscosity across the QCD phase diagram
Nuclear Theory
2022-02-16 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Current experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are probing finite baryon densities where the shear viscosity to enthalpy ratio of the Quark Gluon Plasma remains unknown. We use the Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model with the most up-to-date hadron list to calculate at low temperatures and at finite baryon densities . We then match to a QCD-based shear viscosity calculation within the deconfined phase to create a table across for different cross-over and critical point scenarios at a specified location. We find that these new values would require initial conditions at significantly larger , compared to ideal hydrodynamic trajectories, in order to reach the same freeze-out point.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2103.02090,
title = {Building a testable shear viscosity across the QCD phase diagram},
author = {Emma McLaughlin and Jacob Rose and Travis Dore and Paolo Parotto and Claudia Ratti and Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02090},
year = {2022}
}