Magnetic component of gluon plasma and its viscosity
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-02-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract
We discuss the role of the magnetic degrees of freedom of the gluon plasma in its viscosity. The main assumption is that motions of the magnetic component and of the rest of the plasma can be considered as independent. The magnetic component in the deconfined phase is described by a three-dimensional (Euclidean) field theory. The parameters of the theory can be estimated phenomenologically, from the lattice data. It is not ruled out that the magnetic component is superfluid.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0905.2520,
title = {Magnetic component of gluon plasma and its viscosity},
author = {M. N. Chernodub and H. Verschelde and V. I. Zakharov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2520},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
6 pages, no figures, RevTeX 4.0