Transport coefficients of a hot pion gas

Jul, 1995
22 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.C 53 (1996) 3069-3084
Report number:
  • LYCEN-9525

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Abstract: (APS)
General expressions for transport coefficients of a single-component gas (namely, thermal conductivity and shear and bulk viscosities) of bosons are derived from a Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport equation by means of the Chapman-Enskog method to first order. These expressions are then used for the calculation of the associated transport relaxation times and applied to the pion gas produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The influence of Bose enhancement factors on transport properties can be seen by comparison with previous calculations. © 1996 The American Physical Society.
  • pi: gas
  • transport theory
  • thermodynamics
  • numerical calculations