Quasiparticle relaxation rate and shear viscosity of superfluid 3He-A1 at low temperatures

Quasiparticle relaxation rate, τp-1, and the shear viscosity tensor of the A1-phase of superfluid 3He are calculated at low temperatures and melting pressure, by using Boltzmann equation approach in momentum space. The collision integral is written in terms of inscattering and outscattering collision integrals. The interaction between normal and Bogoliubov quasiparticles is considered in calculating transition probabilities in the binary, decay and coalescence processes. We obtain that both τp↑-1 and τp↓-1 are proportional to T2. The shear viscosities ηxy, ηxz and ηzz are proportional to (T/Tc)-2. The constant of proportionality of the shear viscosity tensor is in nearly good agreement with the experimental results of Roobol et al., and our exact theoretical calculation