Electrical Conductivity of an Anisotropic Quark Gluon Plasma : A Quasiparticle Approach

Abstract

The study of transport coefficients of strongly interacting matter got impetus after the discovery of perfect fluid ever created at ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision experiments. In this article, we have calculated one such coefficient viz. electrical conductivity of the quark gluon plasma (QGP) phase which exhibits a momentum anisotropy. Relativistic Boltzmann's kinetic equation has been solved in the relaxation-time approximation to obtain the electrical conductivity. We have used the quasiparticle description to define the basic properties of QGP. We have compared our model results with the corresponding results obtained in different lattice as well as other model calculations. Furthermore, we extend our model to calculate the electrical conductivity at finite chemical potential.

8 pages, 4 figures

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