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Temperature dependence of bulk viscosity within lattice simulation of $SU(3)$--gluodynamics

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2018-10-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In this paper the temperature dependence of the SU(3)SU(3)--gluodynamics bulk viscosity is studied within lattice simulations. To carry out this study we measure the correlation function of the trace of the energy-momentum tensor for a set of temperatures within the range T/Tc(0.9,1.5)T/T_c \in (0.9, 1.5). To extract the bulk viscosity from the correlation function we apply the Backus-Gilbert method and the Tikhonov regularization method. We show that the ratio ζ/s\zeta/s is small in the region T/Tc1.11.2T/T_c \geqslant 1.1-1.2 and in the vicinity of the transition T/Tc1.11.2T/T_c \leqslant 1.1-1.2 it quickly rises. Our results are in agreement with previous lattice studies and in a reasonable agreement with other phenomenological approaches. Obtained values of the bulk viscosity are significantly larger than perturbative results, what confirms that QGP is a strongly correlated system.

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@article{arxiv.1804.02382,
  title  = {Temperature dependence of bulk viscosity within lattice simulation of $SU(3)$--gluodynamics},
  author = {N. Yu. Astrakhantsev and V. V. Braguta and A. Yu. Kotov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.02382},
  year   = {2018}
}