Transport Coefficients in Large $N_f$ Gauge Theory: Testing Hard Thermal Loops

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2001-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0104121v3

JHEP 0105:039,2001

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

31 pages, including 9 figures. Error in vacuum self-energy, arising from trusting Arthur Weldon, fixed, thank you Tony Rebhan.

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2001/05/039

We compute shear viscosity and flavor diffusion coefficients for ultra-relativistic gauge theory with many fermionic species, Nf >> 1, to leading order in 1/Nf. The calculation is performed both at leading order in the effective coupling strength g^2 Nf, using the Hard Thermal Loop (HTL) approximation, and completely to all orders in g^2 Nf. This constitutes a nontrivial test of how well the HTL approximation works. We find that in this context, the HTL approximation works well wherever the renormalization point sensitivity of the leading order HTL result is small.

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