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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 ηT/w\eta T/w 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 ηT/w\eta T/w at low temperatures and at finite baryon densities ρB\rho_B. We then match ηT/w\eta T/w to a QCD-based shear viscosity calculation within the deconfined phase to create a table across {T,μB}\left\{T,\mu_B\right\} for different cross-over and critical point scenarios at a specified location. We find that these new ηT/w(T,μB)\eta T/w(T,\mu_B) values would require initial conditions at significantly larger ρB\rho_B, compared to ideal hydrodynamic trajectories, in order to reach the same freeze-out point.

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@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}
}
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