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Viscosity at RHIC

Nuclear Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

A variety of physical phenomena can lead to viscous effects. In this talk we review several sources of shear and bulk viscosity with an emphasis on the bulk viscosity associated with chiral restoration. We show that in the limit of a second order phase transition, the viscosity peaks in a singularity at the critical point.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0604007,
  title  = {Viscosity at RHIC},
  author = {Scott Pratt and Kerstin Paech},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0604007},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Proceedings for 2006 Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, La Jolla, CA, March 2006