Bulk viscosity of a gas of massless pions

In the hadronic phase, the dominant configuration of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) with two flavors of massless quarks is a gas of massless pions. We calculate the bulk viscosity (ζ) using the Boltzmann equation with the kinetic theory generalized to incorporate the trace anomaly. We find that the di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chen, Jiunn-Wei, Wang, Juven
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64968
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5742-3395