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arxiv: hep-ph/0505006 · v1 · pith:ZURGR6SHnew · submitted 2005-04-30 · ✦ hep-ph

A transport coefficient: the electrical conductivity

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keywords transportcoefficientconductivityelectricalestimatesultra-softappliedcontrol
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I describe the lattice determination of the electrical conductivity of the quark gluon plasma. Since this is the first extraction of a transport coefficient with a degree of control over errors, I next use this to make estimates of other transport related quantities using simple kinetic theory formulae. The resulting estimates are applied to fluctuations, ultra-soft photon spectra and the viscosity. Dimming of ultra-soft photons is exponential in the mean free path, and hence is a very sensitive probe of transport.

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