Shear viscosities of photons in strongly coupled plasmas

We investigate the shear viscosity of thermalized photons in the quark gluon plasma (QGP) at weak coupling and N=4 super Yang–Mills plasma (SYMP) at both strong and weak couplings. We find that the shear viscosity due to the photon–parton scattering up to the leading order of electromagnetic couplin...

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Main Authors: Di-Lun Yang, Berndt Müller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-09-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316303756