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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0954-3899/38/1/015004
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- DOE [DE-FG02-05ER41367]
- NSF [NSF-PHY-08-51813]
- US Department of Energy's Office of Science
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Among the key features of hot and dense QCD matter produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC is its very low shear viscosity, indicative of the properties of a near-ideal fluid, and a large opacity demonstrated by jet energy loss measurements. In this work, we utilize a microscopic transport model based on the Boltzmann equation with quark and gluon degrees of freedom and cross sections calculated from perturbative quantum chromodynamics to simulate an ideal quark-gluon plasma in full thermal and chemical equilibrium. We then use the Kubo formalism to calculate the shear viscosity to entropy-density ratio of the medium as a function of temperature and system composition. One of our key results is that the shear viscosity over entropy-density ratio eta/s becomes invariant to the chemical composition of the system when plotted as a function of energy-density instead of temperature.
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