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Hot and Dense QCD Shear Viscosity at Leading Log

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-02-17 v2

Abstract

The leading-order weak-coupling shear viscosity of QCD was computed almost 20 years ago, and the extension to next-to-leading order is 4 years old. But these results have never been applied at finite baryon chemical potential μ\mu, despite the fact that intermediate-energy heavy ion collisions and merging neutron stars may explore the Quark-Gluon Plasma in a regime where baryon chemical potentials are large. Here we extend the leading-log shear viscosity calculation to finite μ\mu, and we argue that the convergence of the weak-coupling expansion, while questionable for achievable plasmas, should be better at μ>T\mu > T than at μ=0\mu=0.

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@article{arxiv.2212.02325,
  title  = {Hot and Dense QCD Shear Viscosity at Leading Log},
  author = {Isabella Danhoni and Guy D. Moore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.02325},
  year   = {2023}
}