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Critical acoustics and singular bulk viscosity of quark matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-06-27 v1

Abstract

We examine the behavior of sound attenuation and bulk viscosity near the 2'nd order QCD phase transition at finite density. A dynamical model is presented describing the coupled evolution of sound mode and a slow mode of fluctuations.

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@article{arxiv.1806.09872,
  title  = {Critical acoustics and singular bulk viscosity of quark matter},
  author = {B. O. Kerbikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.09872},
  year   = {2018}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure, contribution to the proceedings of the Rencontres de Moriond 2018 on QCD and High Energy Interactions