Published December 2006 | Version v1
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The flavours of the quark-gluon plasma

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560-0043 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 (United States)

Description

Flavour probes depend on the transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma. An expanding quark-gluon plasma has an anomalous viscosity, which arises from interactions with dynamically generated colour fields. The anomalous viscosity dominates over the collisional viscosity for weak coupling and at not too late times. In addition to possibly providing an explanation for the apparent nearly 'perfect' liquidity of the matter produced in nuclear collisions at RHIC, similar anomalous effects can affect the rate of flavour equilibration and the diffusion constant of heavy quarks

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0954-3899/32/S411/g6_12_s50.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics (ISSN 1361-6471) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://stacks.iop.org/0954-3899/32/S411/g6_12_s50.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
DOI
10.1088/0954-3899/32/12/S50;
PII
S0954-3899(06)26200-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics
Journal Volume
32
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. S411-S419
ISSN
0954-3899
CODEN
JPGPED

Conference

Title
International conference on strangeness in quark matter
Acronym
SQM 2006
Dates
26-31 Mar 2006
Place
Los Angeles, CA (United States)

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38010606
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
B QUARKS; BROOKHAVEN RHIC; C QUARKS; COLOR MODEL; COUPLING; DIFFUSION; FLAVOR MODEL; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; QUARK MATTER; T QUARKS; VISCOSITY
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; BEAUTY PARTICLES; CHARM PARTICLES; COMPOSITE MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUARK MODEL; QUARKS; STORAGE RINGS; TOP PARTICLES