Wednesday, March 27, 2013

1303.6408 (Sukanya Mitra et al.)

Medium effects on the viscosities of a pion gas    [PDF]

Sukanya Mitra, Sourav Sarkar
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 $\pi\pi$ cross-section through one-loop self-energies in the propagator of the exchanged $\rho$. 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.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6408

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