Transport coefficients of strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma including elastic and inelastic scattering within the dynamical quasiparticle model
Abstract
We study the impact of inelastic gluon-radiation and absorption processes on the transport coefficients of the quark-gluon plasma within the dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) in the temperature--baryon-chemical-potential plane (T,μB). Extending the 2→2 baseline established in previous DQPM calculations, we include gluon-radiation 2→3 and the inverse gluon-absorption 3→2 scattering channels with massive partons and effective DQPM propagators and vertices. The corresponding momentum-dependent interaction rates and relaxation times are used to calculate the shear viscosity, bulk viscosity, electric conductivity, and baryon diffusion coefficient as functions of temperature T and baryon chemical potential μB. Within the relaxation time approximation, we find that 2↔3 contributions systematically reduce all considered transport coefficients relative to the 2→2 only results, in accordance with the decrease of the relaxation times. In the thermal regime explored here, however, this reduction remains moderate, since the investigated inelastic rates stay below the 2→2 ones over the considered (T,μB) range. The inelastic channels become more relevant mainly for partonic scatterings at large momenta, which are thermally suppressed in the strongly interacting QGP. At μB=0, the resulting η/s, ζ/s, and σQ/T are compatible with available lattice-QCD estimates within uncertainties. At finite μB, our results provide predictions for the transport properties of QCD matter relevant for beam-energy-scan programs.
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BibTeX
@misc{ingrosso2026transport,
title = {{Transport coefficients of strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma including elastic and inelastic scattering within the dynamical quasiparticle model}},
author = {Gaia Ingrosso and Olga Soloveva and Ilia Grishmanovskii and Taesoo Song and Elena Bratkovskaya},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.13363},
eprint = {2606.13363},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13363},
note = {CC0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Transport coefficients of strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma including elastic and inelastic scattering within the dynamical quasiparticle model
AU - Gaia Ingrosso
AU - Olga Soloveva
AU - Ilia Grishmanovskii
AU - Taesoo Song
AU - Elena Bratkovskaya
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/05
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.13363
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13363
AB - We study the impact of inelastic gluon-radiation and absorption processes on the transport coefficients of the quark-gluon plasma within the dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) in the temperature--baryon-chemical-potential plane (T,μ_B). Extending the 2→2 baseline established in previous DQPM calculations, we include gluon-radiation 2→3 and the inverse gluon-absorption 3→2 scattering channels with massive partons and effective DQPM propagators and vertices. The corresponding momentum-dependent interaction rates and relaxation times are used to calculate the shear viscosity, bulk viscosity, electric conductivity, and baryon diffusion coefficient as functions of temperature T and baryon chemical potential μ_B. Within the relaxation time approximation, we find that 2↔3 contributions systematically reduce all considered transport coefficients relative to the 2→2 only results, in accordance with the decrease of the relaxation times. In the thermal regime explored here, however, this reduction remains moderate, since the investigated inelastic rates stay below the 2→2 ones over the considered (T,μ_B) range. The inelastic channels become more relevant mainly for partonic scatterings at large momenta, which are thermally suppressed in the strongly interacting QGP. At μ_B=0, the resulting η/s, ζ/s, and σ_Q/T are compatible with available lattice-QCD estimates within uncertainties. At finite μ_B, our results provide predictions for the transport properties of QCD matter relevant for beam-energy-scan programs.
ER -