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Hadronic Transport Coefficients from Effective Field Theories

  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Presents a unified description of non-equilibrium phenomena in a hadronic gas
  • Applies unitarized effective theories to the calculation of transport coefficients in mesons
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Introduction to Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

    • Juan M. Torres-Rincon
    Pages 1-31
  3. Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck Equation

    • Juan M. Torres-Rincon
    Pages 33-45
  4. Shear Viscosity and KSS Coefficient

    • Juan M. Torres-Rincon
    Pages 47-62
  5. Bulk Viscosity

    • Juan M. Torres-Rincon
    Pages 63-73
  6. Thermal and Electrical Conductivities

    • Juan M. Torres-Rincon
    Pages 75-89
  7. Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook or Relaxation Time Approximation

    • Juan M. Torres-Rincon
    Pages 91-97
  8. Strangeness Diffusion

    • Juan M. Torres-Rincon
    Pages 99-107
  9. Charm Diffusion

    • Juan M. Torres-Rincon
    Pages 109-133
  10. Linear Sigma Model and Phase Transitions

    • Juan M. Torres-Rincon
    Pages 135-152
  11. Measurement of the Bulk Viscosity

    • Juan M. Torres-Rincon
    Pages 153-165
  12. Conclusions

    • Juan M. Torres-Rincon
    Pages 167-169
  13. Back Matter

    Pages 171-215

About this book

This dissertation focuses on the calculation of transport coefficients in the matter created in a relativistic heavy-ion collision after chemical freeze-out. This matter can be well approximated using a pion gas out of equilibrium. We describe the theoretical framework needed to obtain the shear and bulk viscosities, the thermal and electrical conductivities and the flavor diffusion coefficients of a meson gas at low temperatures. To describe the interactions of the degrees of freedom, we use effective field theories with chiral and heavy quark symmetries. We subsequently introduce the unitarization methods in order to obtain a scattering amplitude that satisfies the unitarity condition exactly, then go on to calculate the transport properties of the low-temperature phase of quantum chromodynamics - the hadronic medium - which can be used in hydrodynamic simulations of a relativistic heavy-ion collision and its subsequent evolution. We show that the shear viscosity over entropy density exhibits a minimum in a phase transition by studying this coefficient in atomic Argon (around the liquid-gas phase transition) and in the linear sigma model in the limit of a large number of scalar fields (which presents a chiral phase transition). Finally, we provide an experimental method for estimating the bulk viscosity in relativistic heavy-ion collisions by performing correlations of the fluctuating components of the stress-energy tensor.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Inst. de Ciencias del Espacio Camp. UAB, Fac. de Ciencias, Campus Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

    Juan M. Torres-Rincon

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