Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-12-04
Phys.Rev.D81:076002,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
45 pages, 8 figures, REVTeX; Abstract and Sec. III.A modified to clarify the physical discussion.
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.076002
At nonzero temperature in QCD, about the deconfining phase transition there is a "semi" quark gluon plasma (semi-QGP), where the expectation value of the (renormalized) Polyakov loop is less than one. This can be modeled by a semiclassical expansion about a constant field for the vector potential, A_0, which is diagonal in color. We compute the shear viscosity in the semi-QGP by using the Boltzmann equation in the presence of this background field. To leading, logarithmic order in weak coupling, the dominant diagrams are given by the usual scattering processes of 2 -> 2 particles. For simplicity we also assume that both the number of colors and flavors are large. Near the critical temperature T_c, where the expectation value of the Polyakov loop is small, the overall density of colored fields decreases according to their color representation, with the density of quarks vanishes linearly with the loop, and that of gluons, quadratically. This decrease in the overall density dominates changes in the transport cross section. As a result, relative to that in the perturbative QGP, near T_c the shear viscosity in the semi-QGP is suppressed by two powers of the Polyakov loop. In a semiclassical expansion, the suppression of colored fields depends only upon which color representation they lie in, and not upon their mass. That light and heavy quarks are suppressed in a common manner may help to explain the behavior of charm quarks at RHIC.
Hidaka Yoshimasa
Pisarski Robert D.
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