Shear viscosity in a gluon gas.

نویسندگان

  • Zhe Xu
  • Carsten Greiner
چکیده

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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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 100 17  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008