Bulk viscosity and spectral functions in QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Moore, Guy D ^a   Saremi, Omid ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Lattice QCD; QCD; Thermal field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149296344     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/015     Document Type: Article

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