{
  "id": "0805.4820",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2008-05-30T18:08:22.000Z",
  "updated": "2008-11-28T15:43:24.000Z",
  "title": "Viscosity and thermodynamic properties of QGP in relativistic heavy ion collisions",
  "authors": [
    "Vinod Chandra",
    "V. Ravishankar"
  ],
  "comment": "21 pages, 10 figures, Version to appear in EPJC",
  "journal": "Eur.Phys.J.C59:705-714,2009",
  "doi": "10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0814-0",
  "categories": [
    "nucl-th",
    "hep-ph",
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study the viscosity and thermodynamic properties of QGP at RHIC by employing the recently extracted equilibrium distribution functions from two hot QCD equations of state of $O(g^5)$ and $O(g^6\\ln(1/g))$ respectively. After obtaining the temperature dependence of energy density, and entropy density, we focus our attention on the determination of shear viscosity for a rapidly expanding interacting plasma, as a function of temperature. We find that interactions significantly decrease the shear viscosity. They decrease the viscosity to entropy density ratio, $\\eta/{\\mathcal S}$ as well.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2008-11-28T15:43:24.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "24.85.+p",
      "12.38.Mh",
      "05.20.Dd",
      "25.75.-q"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "relativistic heavy ion collisions",
      "thermodynamic properties",
      "shear viscosity",
      "entropy density ratio",
      "extracted equilibrium distribution functions"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "European Physical Journal C",
      "year": 2009,
      "month": "Feb",
      "volume": 59,
      "number": 3,
      "pages": 705
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 21,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 787451,
      "adsabs": "2009EPJC...59..705C"
    }
  }
}