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Quasi-particle hydrodynamics with momentum-dependent relaxation time

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-04-17 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We formulate the relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics of a system of quasi-particles from the Boltzmann equation within the ambit of relaxation time approximation with modified collision kernels. We focus on two specific scenarios with single quasi-particle species, (i) the extended relaxation time approximation, and (ii) the novel relaxation time approximation. We find that both approaches lead to equivalent results up to first-order in spacetime gradients. We generalize the extended relaxation time approach to incorporate multiple quasi-particle species and obtain the corresponding expressions for the shear (ηs\eta_s) and bulk (ζs\zeta_s) viscous coefficients. As an application, we study the temperature dependence of the transport coefficients of hot QCD medium with quasi-gluon and (light and strange) quasi-quark sectors considering the power law ansatz for the momentum dependence of the relaxation time. We explore the impact of the power law exponent on the ratio ζs/ηs\zeta_s/\eta_s. Our study suggests that in comparison to a constant exponent, a temperature dependent exponent in the power law ansatz is more suitable for modeling the quasi-particle dynamics in the relevant temperature regime of heavy ion collision.

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@article{arxiv.2504.11572,
  title  = {Quasi-particle hydrodynamics with momentum-dependent relaxation time},
  author = {Arghya Mukherjee and Samapan Bhadury and Pracheta Singha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.11572},
  year   = {2025}
}

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18 pages, 4 figures