Spectral densities for hot QCD plasmas in a leading log approximation
Abstract
We compute the spectral densities of and in high temperature QCD plasmas at small frequency and momentum,\, . The leading log Boltzmann equation is reformulated as a Fokker Planck equation with non-trivial boundary conditions, and the resulting partial differential equation is solved numerically in momentum space. The spectral densities of the current, shear, sound, and bulk channels exhibit a smooth transition from free streaming quasi-particles to ideal hydrodynamics. This transition is analyzed with conformal and non-conformal second order hydrodynamics, and a second order diffusion equation. We determine all of the second order transport coefficients which characterize the linear response in the hydrodynamic regime.
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@article{arxiv.1003.0699,
title = {Spectral densities for hot QCD plasmas in a leading log approximation},
author = {Juhee Hong and Derek Teaney},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.0699},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
39 pages, 6 figures. v3 contains an analysis of the bulk channel with non-conformal hydrodynamics. Otherwise no significant changes