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Shear Viscosity from Lattice QCD

Understanding of the transport properties of the the quark-gluon plasma is becoming increasingly important to describe current measurements at heavy ion collisions. This work reports on recent efforts to determine the shear viscosity h in the deconfined phase from lattice QCD. The main focus is on t...

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Autores principales: Mages, Simon W, Borsányi, Szabolcs, Fodor, Zoltán, Schäfer, Andreas, Szabó, Kálmán
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: SISSA 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.22323/1.214.0232
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2159070
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Sumario:Understanding of the transport properties of the the quark-gluon plasma is becoming increasingly important to describe current measurements at heavy ion collisions. This work reports on recent efforts to determine the shear viscosity h in the deconfined phase from lattice QCD. The main focus is on the integration of the Wilson flow in the analysis to get a better handle on the infrared behaviour of the spectral function which is relevant for transport. It is carried out at finite Wilson flow time, which eliminates the dependence on the lattice spacing. Eventually, a new continuum limit has to be carried out which sends the new regulator introduced by finite flow time to zero. Also the non-perturbative renormalization strategy applied for the energy momentum tensor is discussed. At the end some quenched results for temperatures up to 4 : 5 T c are presented