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Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-02-01 Tilman Enss , Rudolf Haussmann , Wilhelm Zwerger

At nonzero temperature in QCD, about the deconfining phase transition there is a "semi" quark gluon plasma (semi-QGP), where the expectation value of the (renormalized) Polyakov loop is less than one. This can be modeled by a semiclassical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-28 Yoshimasa Hidaka , Robert D. Pisarski

A theoretical framework for the calculation of shear and bulk viscosities of hadronic matter at finite temperature is presented. The framework is based on the quasi-particle picture. It allows for an arbitrary number of hadron species with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-01 P. Chakraborty , J. I. Kapusta

Numerical results for the transport coefficients of quark gluon plasma are calculated by lattice simulation of SU(3) pure gauge model. The bulk viscosity is consistent with zero. The shear viscosity is finite and increases with temperature…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 Sunao Sakai , Atsushi Nakamura , Takuya Saito

In this study, we calculate the shear viscosity for rotating fermions with spin-half under conditions of high temperature and density. We employ the Kubo formalism, rooted in finite-temperature quantum field theory, to compute the field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-23 Sarthak Satapathy , Rajeev Singh , Pushpa Panday , Salman Ahamad Khan , Debarshi Dey

Shear and bulk viscosities of deconfined gluonic matter are investigated within an effective kinetic theory by describing the strongly interacting medium phenomenologically in terms of quasiparticle excitations with medium-dependent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-16 M. Bluhm , B. Kampfer , K. Redlich

The shear viscosity to entropy density ratio ({\eta}/s) of quark gluon plasma produced in ultra- relativistic heavy-ion collisions has been studied from the energy loss of heavy quarks in QGP medium. We have also studied the bulk viscosity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-13 Ashik Ikbal Sheikh , Zubayer Ahammed

In the Beam Energy Scan phase II (BES-II) experiments at RHIC STAR, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced with changing collision energies may probe different regions of the QCD phase diagram. Correspondingly, studying the transport…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Wei-be He , Guo-yun Shao , Chong-long Xie , Ren-xin Xu

Quark-Gluon plasmas produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions quickly expand and cool, entering a phase consisting of multiple interacting hadronic resonances just below the QCD deconfinement temperature, $T\sim 155$ MeV. Numerical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-08 Scott Pratt , Alexander Baez , Jane Kim

In recent years, there has been a significant effort to extract the temperature-dependent shear ($\eta/s$) and bulk ($\zeta/s$) viscosity over entropy ratios of the quark-gluon plasma from a global comparison of heavy-ion data with results…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-28 Fernando G. Gardim , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

The relation of the shear viscosity coefficient to the recently introduced transport rate is derived within relativistic kinetic theory. We calculate the shear viscosity over entropy ratio \eta/s for a gluon gas, which involves elastic gg->…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhe Xu , Carsten Greiner

We study the viscosity and thermodynamic properties of QGP at RHIC by employing the recently extracted equilibrium distribution functions from two hot QCD equations of state of $O(g^5)$ and $O(g^6\ln(1/g))$ respectively. After obtaining the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Vinod Chandra , V. Ravishankar

Quark-Gluon plasmas produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions quickly expand and cool, entering a phase consisting of multiple interacting hadronic resonances just below the QCD deconfinement temperature. The transport properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-09-02 Paul Romatschke , Scott Pratt

Shear viscosity is a measure of the amount of dissipation in a simple fluid. In kinetic theory shear viscosity is related to the rate of momentum transport by quasi-particles, and the uncertainty relation suggests that the ratio of shear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 Thomas Schaefer , Derek Teaney

The shear viscosity of a gluon gas is calculated using the Green-Kubo relation. Time correlations of the energy-momentum tensor in thermal equilibrium are extracted from microscopic simulations using a parton cascade solving various…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 C. Wesp , A. El , F. Reining , Z. Xu , I. Bouras , C. Greiner

In this work the shear viscosity of strongly interacting matter is calculated within a two-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model as a function of temperature and chemical potential. The general Kubo formula is applied, incorporating the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-20 Robert Lang , Norbert Kaiser , Wolfram Weise

The transport properties of the strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are extracted by Bayesian parameter estimate methods with the latest collision beam energy data from LHC. This Bayesian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 J. E. Parkkila , A. Onnerstad , D. J. Kim

The quark--gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy--ion collisions behaves as a nearly perfect fluid characterized by an exceptionally small shear viscosity to entropy density ratio. Understanding the microscopic origin of this small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-17 Debmalya Mukhopadhyay

In the framework of irreversible thermodynamics, we studied the transport properties of QGP. Shear viscosity and non-equilibrium entropy density related to viscous process at finite density has been investigated in weakly coupled limit by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hui Liu , Defu Hou , Jiarong Li

The shear viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma is predicted to be lower than the collisional viscosity for weak coupling. The estimated ratio of the shear viscosity to entropy density is rather close to the ratio calculated by N = 4 super…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-03-19 Juhee Hong , P. H. Diamond