Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-06-21
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
17 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
The shear viscosity of a gluon gas is calculated using the Green-Kubo relation. Time correlations of the energy-momentum tensor in thermal equilibrium are extracted from microscopic simulations using a parton cascade solving various Boltzmann collision processes. We find that the pQCD based gluon bremsstrahlung described by Gunion-Bertsch processes significantly lowers the shear viscosity by a factor of 3-8 compared to elastic scatterings. The shear viscosity scales with the coupling as 1/(alpha_s^2\log(1/alpha_s)). For a constant coupling constant the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio has no dependence on temperature. Replacing the pQCD-based collision angle distribution of binary scatterings by an isotropic form decreases the shear viscosity by a factor of 3.
Bouras Ioannis
El Andrej
Greiner Carsten
Reining Felix
Wesp Chistian
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