Speaker
Isabella Danhoni
(TU Darmstadt)
Description
The next-to-leading order weak-coupling shear viscosity of QCD was computed 6 years ago.
However, these results have never been applied at finite baryon chemical potential $\mu$, even though intermediate-energy heavy ion collisions and merging neutron stars may explore the Quark-Gluon Plasma in a regime where baryon chemical potentials are large.
Here we extend the next-to-leading order shear viscosity calculations to finite $\mu$, and we show that, while the convergence of the weak-coupling expansion is questionable for achievable plasmas, it is somewhat better at $\mu > T$ than at $\mu=0$.
Author
Isabella Danhoni
(TU Darmstadt)
