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Building a testable shear viscosity across the QCD phase diagram
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Current experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are probing finite baryon densities where the shear viscosity to enthalpy ratio $\eta T/w$ of the Quark Gluon Plasma remains unknown. We use the Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model with the most up-to-date hadron list to calculate $\eta T/w$ at low temperatures and at finite baryon densities $\rho_B$. We then match $\eta T/w$ to a QCD-based shear viscosity calculation within the deconfined phase to create a table across $\left\{T,\mu_B\right\}$ for different cross-over and critical point scenarios at a specified location. We find that these new $\eta T/w(T,\mu_B)$ values would require initial conditions at significantly larger $\rho_B$, compared to ideal hydrodynamic trajectories, in order to reach the same freeze-out point.
- Subjects :
- Nuclear Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2103.02090
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.105.024903