The second order hydrodynamic transport coefficient κ for the gluon plasma from the lattice

  • The quark gluon plasma produced in heavy ion collisions behaves like an almost ideal fluid described by viscous hydrodynamics with a number of transport coefficients. The second order coefficient κ is related to a Euclidean correlator of the energy-momentum tensor at vanishing frequency and low momentum. This allows for a lattice determination without maximum entropy methods or modelling, but the required lattice sizes represent a formidable challenge. We calculate κ in leading order lattice perturbation theory and simulations on 1203 × 6, 8 lattices with a < 0.1 fm. In the temperature range 2Tc − 10Tc we find κ = 0.36(15)T2. The error covers both a suitably rescaled AdS/CFT prediction as well as, remarkably, the result of leading order perturbation theory. This suggests that appropriate noise reduction methods on the lattice and NLO perturbative calculations could provide an accurate QCD prediction in the near future.

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Author:Owe PhilipsenORCiDGND, Christian Schäfer
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-452062
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2014)003
ISSN:1029-8479
ISSN:1126-6708
ArXiv Id:http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.6618
Parent Title (English):Journal of high energy physics
Publisher:Springer ; SISSA
Place of publication:Berlin ; Heidelberg ; [Trieste]
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2014
Date of first Publication:2014/02/03
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2017/12/14
Tag:Lattice QCD; Lattice gauge field theories; Quark-gluon Plasmap
Volume:3
Page Number:23
First Page:1
Last Page:22
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Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
HeBIS-PPN:42797089X
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0