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Shear viscosity coefficient and relaxation time of causal dissipative hydrodynamics in QCD

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-02 v2 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The shear viscosity coefficient and the corresponding relaxation time for causal dissipative hydrodynamics are calculated based on the microscopic formula proposed in [T. Koide and T. Kodama, Phys. Rev. \textbf{E 78}, 051107 (2008)]. Here, the exact formula is transformed into a more compact form and applied it to evaluate these transport coefficients in the chiral perturbation theory and perturbative QCD. It is shown that in the leading order calculation, the causal shear viscosity coefficient η\eta reduces to that of the ordinary Green-Kubo-Nakano formula, and the relaxation time τπ\tau_{\pi} is related to η\eta and pressure PP by a simple relationship, τπ=η/P\tau_{\pi}=\eta/P.

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@article{arxiv.0901.3707,
  title  = {Shear viscosity coefficient and relaxation time of causal dissipative hydrodynamics in QCD},
  author = {T. Koide and E. Nakano and T. Kodama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.3707},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, errors of calcualtions were corrected, and some rederences and discussions were added. Accepted version for publication in PRL