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Transport coefficients in Yang-Mills theory and QCD

Authors :
Nicolai Christiansen
Nils Strodthoff
Michael Haas
Jan M. Pawlowski
Source :
Physical review letters. 115(11)
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

We calculate the shear viscosity over entropy density ratio $\eta/s$ in Yang--Mills theory from the Kubo formula using an exact diagrammatic representation in terms of full propagators and vertices using gluon spectral functions as external input. We provide an analytic fit formula for the temperature dependence of $\eta/s$ over the whole temperature range from a glueball resonance gas at low temperatures, to a high-temperature regime consistent with perturbative results. Subsequently we provide a first estimate for $\eta/s$ in QCD.<br />Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures

Details

ISSN :
10797114
Volume :
115
Issue :
11
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....bf4fe7d2abe391c656699da30db765a3