Bulk viscosity of QCD matter near the critical temperature

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Kharzeev, Dmitri ^a   Tuchin, Kirill ^b,c  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RIKEN BNL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalies in field and string theories; Lattice QCD; QCD; Sum rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149286370     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/093     Document Type: Article

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