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  title info:
    title: Hadronic Transport Coefficients from Effective Field Theories
  name:
    name part: Torres-Rincon, Juan M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 215 p. 68 illus., 20 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions -- Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck Equation -- Shear Viscosity and KSS Coefficient -- Bulk Viscosity -- Thermal and Electrical Conductivities -- Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook or Relaxation Time Approximation -- Strangeness Diffusion -- Charm Diffusion -- Linear Sigma Model and Phase Transitions -- Measurement of the Bulk Viscosity.
  note: by Juan M. Torres-Rincon.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear physics
  subject:
    topic: Heavy ions
  subject:
    topic: Hadrons
  subject:
    topic: Low temperature physics
  subject:
    topic: Low temperatures
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
  subject:
    topic: Low Temperature Physics
  classification: QC770-798
  classification: QC702.7.H42
  classification: QC793.5.H32-793.5.H329
  classification: 539.7092
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
  identifier: 9783319004259
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00425-9
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    record creation date: 130916
    record change date: 20151103121556.0
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