Shear viscosity in a gluon gas

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作者
Xu, Zhe [1 ]
Greiner, Carsten [1 ]
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[1] Univ Frankfurt, Inst Theoret Phys, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.172301
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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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 -> gg perturbative QCD (PQCD) scatterings as well as inelastic gg <-> ggg PQCD bremsstrahlung. For alpha(s)=0.3 we find eta/s=0.13 and for alpha(s)=0.6, eta/s=0.076. The small eta/s values, which suggest strongly coupled systems, are due to the gluon bremsstrahlung incorporated.
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