https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6649-z
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Transport coefficients of hot magnetized QCD matter beyond the lowest Landau level approximation
1
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 382355, India
2
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
* e-mail: vchandra@iitgn.ac.in
Received:
2
October
2018
Accepted:
4
February
2019
Published online:
13
February
2019
In this article, shear viscosity, bulk viscosity, and thermal conductivity of a QCD medium have been studied in the presence of a strong magnetic field. To model the quark–gluon plasma, an extended quasi-particle description of the hot QCD equation of state in the presence of the magnetic field has been adopted. The effects of higher Landau levels on the temperature dependence of viscous coefficients (bulk and shear viscosities) and thermal conductivity have been obtained by considering the 
processes in the presence of the strong magnetic field. An effective covariant kinetic theory has been set up in (1+1)-dimensional that includes mean field contributions in terms of quasi-particle dispersions and magnetic field to describe the Landau level dynamics of quarks. The sensitivity of these parameters to the magnitude of the magnetic field has also been explored. Both the magnetic field and mean field contributions have seen to play a significant role in obtaining the temperature behaviour of the transport coefficients of the medium.
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