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Transport coefficients for bulk viscous evolution in the relaxation time approximation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-03 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We derive the form of the viscous corrections to the phase-space distribution function due to the bulk viscous pressure and shear stress tensor using the iterative Chapman-Enskog method. We then calculate the transport coefficients necessary for the second-order hydrodynamic evolution of the bulk viscous pressure and the shear stress tensor. We demonstrate that the transport coefficients obtained using the Chapman-Enskog method are different than those obtained previously using the 14-moment approximation for a finite particle mass. Specializing to the case of boost-invariant and transversally homogeneous longitudinal expansion, we show that the transport coefficients obtained using the Chapman-Enskog method result in better agreement with the exact solution of the Boltzmann equation in the relaxation-time approximation compared to results obtained in the 14-moment approximation. Finally, we explicitly confirm that the time evolution of the bulk viscous pressure is significantly affected by its coupling to the shear stress tensor.

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@article{arxiv.1407.7231,
  title  = {Transport coefficients for bulk viscous evolution in the relaxation time approximation},
  author = {Amaresh Jaiswal and Radoslaw Ryblewski and Michael Strickland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.7231},
  year   = {2014}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures; v2 - PRC version

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