Shear Viscosity of Quark Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We consider the shear viscosity of a system of quarks and its ratio to the entropy density above the critical temperature for deconfinement. Both quantities are derived and computed for different modeling of the quark self-energy, also allowing for a temperature dependence of the effective mass and width. The behaviour of the viscosity and the entropy density is argued in terms of the strength of the coupling and of the main characteristics of the quark self-energy. A comparison with existing results is also discussed.
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@article{arxiv.0707.4442,
title = {Shear Viscosity of Quark Matter},
author = {W. M. Alberico and S. Chiacchiera and H. Hansen and A. Molinari and M. Nardi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.4442},
year = {2008}
}
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15 pages, 4 figures