Shear Viscosity to Entropy within a Parton Cascade

2007/06/28 by A. El, C. Greiner, Carsten Greiner +4
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0706.4212

2 pages, 4 Figures. Contributed by C.Greiner by Workshop on Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC: Last Call for Predictions, Geneva, Switzerland, 14 May-8 Jun 2007

arxiv created 2007/06/28 · openalex publication_date 2007/06/28 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The shear viscosity is calculated by means of the perturbative kinetic partonic cascade BAMPS with CGC initial conditons for various saturation momentum scale Q_s. eta/s ~ 0.15 stays approximately constant when going from RHIC to LHC.

Related

• Shear viscosity from quenched to full lattice QCD
• Shear Viscosity of Collider-Produced QCD Matter II: Comparing a Multi-Component Chapman-Enskog Framework with AMPT in Full Equilibrium
• Extracting shear viscosity of the Quark Gluon Plasma in the presence of bulk viscosity
• Shear viscosity in QCD and why it's hard to calculate
• Transport properties of the fluid produced at RHIC