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Shear viscosity from Kubo formalism: NJL-model study

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-03-26 v2

Abstract

A large-NcN_{\rm c} expansion is combined with the Kubo formalism to study the shear viscosity η\eta of strongly interacting matter in the two-flavor NJL model. We discuss analytical and numerical approaches to η\eta and investigate systematically its strong dependence on the spectral width and the momentum-space cutoff. Thermal effects on the constituent quark mass from spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking are included. The ratio η/s\eta/s and its thermal dependence are derived for different parameterizations of the spectral width and for an explicit one-loop calculation including mesonic modes within the NJL model.

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@article{arxiv.1311.4628,
  title  = {Shear viscosity from Kubo formalism: NJL-model study},
  author = {Robert Lang and Wolfram Weise},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.4628},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

14 pages, 11 figures. Revision includes additionally the spectral width at one-loop level (chapter V) and Appendix A. Matches published version

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