Shear and bulk viscosity of high-temperature gluon plasma
- Received Date:2018-02-26
- Available Online:2018-06-05
Abstract:We calculate the shear viscosity (η) and bulk viscosity (ζ) to entropy density (s) ratiosη/sandζ/sof a gluon plasma system in kinetic theory, including both the elasticgg↔ggforward scattering and the inelastic soft gluon bremsstrahlunggg↔gggprocesses. Due to the suppressed contribution toηandζin thegg↔ggforward scattering and the effectiveg↔gggluon splitting, Arnold, Moore and Yaffe (AMY) and Arnold, Dogan and Moore (ADM) have got the leading order computations forηandζin high-temperature QCD matter. In this paper, we calculate the correction toηandζin the soft gluon bremsstrahlunggg↔gggprocess with an analytic method. We find that the contribution of the collision term from thegg↔gggsoft gluon bremsstrahlung process is just a small perturbation to thegg↔ggscattering process and that the correction is at~5% level. Then, we obtain the bulk viscosity of the gluon plasma for the number-changing process. Furthermore, our leading-order result for bulk viscosity is the formulaζ∝(αs2T3)/(lnαs-1) in high-temperature gluon plasma.

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