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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 172, 2018
XLVII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 2017)
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Article Number | 05001 | |
Number of page(s) | 10 | |
Section | Collectivity in high energy collisions: jets, flow and other aspects | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817205001 | |
Published online | 26 January 2018 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817205001
Non-perturbative Approach to Equation of State and Collective Modes of the QGP
Cyclotron Institute and Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3366, USA
* Corresponding author: lshphy@gmail.com
** Corresponding author: rapp@comp.tamu.edu
Published online: 26 January 2018
We discuss a non-perturbative T-matrix approach to investigate the microscopic structure of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Utilizing an effective Hamiltonian which includes both light- and heavy-parton degrees of freedoms. The basic two-body interaction includes color-Coulomb and confining contributions in all available color channels, and is constrained by lattice-QCD data for the heavy-quark free energy. The in-medium T-matrices and parton spectral functions are computed selfconsistently with full account of off-shell properties encoded in large scattering widths. We apply the T-matrices to calculate the equation of state (EoS) for the QGP, including a ladder resummation of the Luttinger-Ward functional using a matrix-log technique to account for the dynamical formation of bound states. It turns out that the latter become the dominant degrees of freedom in the EoS at low QGP temperatures indicating a transition from parton to hadron degrees of freedom. The calculated spectral properties of one- and two-body states confirm this picture, where large parton scattering rates dissolve the parton quasiparticle structures while broad resonances start to form as the pseudocritical temperature is approached from above. Further calculations of transport coefficients reveal a small viscosity and heavy-quark diffusion coefficient.
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