Published June 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

Impact of the chromo-electromagnetic field fluctuations on transport coefficients of heavy quarks and shear viscosity to entropy density ratio of quark-gluon plasma

  • 1. Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, HBNI, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, 700 064 (India)

Description

The chromo-electromagnetic field fluctuations in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) play an important role as these field fluctuations result energy gain of heavy quarks. We consider these fluctuations and evaluate the transport coefficients, e.g., drag and diffusion coefficients of charm quarks and shear viscosity to entropy density ratio (η/s) of the QGP. We find a significant effect of such fluctuations on the transport coefficients. These fluctuations cause a reduction of the drag and diffusion coefficients. We also observe that the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio of the QGP is closer to the value obtained in Lattice QCD (LQCD) and functional renormalization group calculations when the effects of such fluctuations are included.

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2019.03.011

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Augmented title (English)
KEYWORDS: QUARK-GLUON PLASMA;CHROMO-ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD FLUCTUATIONS;HEAVY QUARKS;SHEAR VISCOSITY TO ENTROPY DENSITY RATIO

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2019.03.011;
PII
S0375947419300557;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
986
Journal Page Range
p. 48-59
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL

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