Transport coefficients of a hot QCD medium and their relative significance in heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

The main focus of this article is to obtain various transport coefficients for a hot QCD medium that is produced while colliding two heavy nuclei ultra-relativistically. As the hot QCD medium follows dissipative hydrodynamics while undergoing space-time evolution, the knowledge of the transport coefficients such as thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, shear and bulk viscosities are essential to understand the underlying physics there. The approach adopted here is semi-classical transport theory. The determination of all these transport coefficients requires knowledge of the medium away from equilibrium. In this context, we setup the linearized transport equation employing the Chapman-Enskog technique from kinetic theory of many particle system with a collision term that includes the binary collisions of quarks/antiquarks and gluons. In order to include the effects of a strongly interacting, thermal medium, a quasi-particle description of realistic hot QCD equation of state has been employed through the equilibrium modeling of the momentum distributions of gluons and quarks with non-trivial dispersion relations while extending the model for finite but small quark chemical potential. The effective coupling for strong interaction has been redefined following the charge renormalization under the scheme of the quasiparticle model. The consolidated effects on transport coefficients are seen to have significant impact on their temperature dependence. The relative significances of momentum and heat transfer as well as charge diffusion processes in hot QCD have been investigated by studying the ratios of the respective transport coefficients.

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