https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611703013
Shear viscosity to electric conductivity ratio of the QGP
1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Via S. Sofia 64, I-95125 Catania, Italy
2 Laboratorio Nazionale del Sud, INFN-LNS, Via S. Sofia 63, I-95125 Catania, Italy
Published online: 11 May 2016
The transport coefficients of strongly interacting matter are currently subject of intense theoretical and phenomenological studies due to their relevance for the characterization of the quark-gluon plasma produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions (uRHIC). We predict that (η/s)/(σel/T), independently on the running coupling αs(T), should increase up to about ~ 20 for T → Tc, while it goes down to a nearly flat behavior around ≃ 4 for T ≥ 4 Tc. Therefore we find a stronger T-dependence of σel/T with respect to η/s that in a quasiparticle approach is constrained by lQCD thermodynamics. A conformal theory, instead, predicts a similar T dependence of η/s and σel/T.
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