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Transport coefficients of gluonic fluid

Nuclear Theory 2011-06-15 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The shear (η\eta) and bulk (ζ\zeta) viscous coefficients have been evaluated for a gluonic fluid. The elastic, gggggg \rightarrow gg and the inelastic, number non-conserving, ggggggg\rightarrow ggg processes have been considered as the dominant perturbative processes in evaluating the viscous co-efficients to entropy density (ss) ratios. Recently the processes: ggggggg \rightarrow ggg has been revisited and a correction to the widely used Gunion-Bertsch (GB) formula has been obtained. The η\eta and ζ\zeta have been evaluated for gluonic fluid with the formula derived recently. The sensitivity of the quantity, η/s\eta/s on the running coupling constant is also discussed. At αs=0.3\alpha_s=0.3 we get η/s=0.24\eta/s=0.24 which is close to the value obtained from the analysis of the elliptic flow at RHIC experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1011.4181,
  title  = {Transport coefficients of gluonic fluid},
  author = {Santosh K Das and Jan-e Alam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4181},
  year   = {2011}
}