Extracting hadronic viscosity from microscopic transport models |
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Authors: | Nasser Demir and Steffen A Bass |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Physics,Duke University,Durham,USA |
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Abstract: | Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) are thought to have created a Quark–Gluon
Plasma, characterized by a very small shear viscosity to entropy density ratio η/s, close to the lower bound predicted for that quantity by string theory. However, due to the dynamics of the collision, the
produced matter passes through a phase characterized by an expanding and rapidly cooling hadron gas with strongly increasing
η/s. Such a rise in η/s would not be compatible with the success of (viscous) hydrodynamics, which requires a very small value of η/s throughout the full evolution of the reaction in order to successfully describe the collective flow seen in the experiments.
Here we show that the inclusion of a pion-chemical potential, which is bound to arise due to the separation of chemical and
kinetic freeze-out during the collision evolution, will reduce the value of η/s, and argue that introduction of other chemical potentials could ensure the successful application of (viscous) hydrodynamics
to collisions at RHIC. |
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