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Shear and Bulk Viscosities of Quark Matter from Quark-Meson Fluctuations in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model

arXiv:1507.08798 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.93.045205

Abstract

We have calculated the temperature dependence of shear and bulk viscosities of quark matter due to quark-meson fluctuations. The quark thermal width originating from quantum fluctuations of quark- and quark- loops at finite temperature is calculated with the formalism of real-time thermal field theory. Temperature-dependent constituent-quark and meson masses, and quark-meson couplings are obtained in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. We found a non-trivial influence of the temperature-dependent masses and couplings on the Landau-cut structure of the quark self-energy. Our results for the ratios and , where is the entropy density (also determined in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model in the quasi-particle approximation), are in fair agreement with results of the literature obtained from different models and techniques. In particular, our result for has a minimum very close to the conjectured AdS/CFT lower bound, .

10 pages, 11 figures

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