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Shear viscosity of hadronic gas mixtures

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We investigate the effects of baryon chemical potential \mu on the shear viscosity coefficient \eta and the viscosity to entropy density ratio \eta/s of a pion-nucleon gas mixture. We find that \eta is an increasing function of T and \mu, while the ratio \eta/s turns to a decreasing function in a wide region of T-\mu plane. In the kinematical region we studied, the smallest value of \eta/s is about 0.3.

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@article{arxiv.0805.1684,
  title  = {Shear viscosity of hadronic gas mixtures},
  author = {K. Itakura and O. Morimatsu and H. Otomo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.1684},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4pages, 5 figures, presented at the 20th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (QM2008)