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Medium effects on the viscosities of a pion gas

arXiv:1303.6408 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.87.094026

Abstract

The bulk and shear viscosities of a pion gas is obtained by solving the relativistic transport equation in the Chapman-Enskog approximation. In-medium effects are introduced in the cross-section through one-loop self-energies in the propagator of the exchanged and mesons. The effect of early chemical freeze-out in heavy ion collisions is implemented through a temperature dependent pion chemical potential. These are found to affect the temperature dependence of the bulk and shear viscosities significantly.

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