Measuring shear viscosity using correlations
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Gavin, Sean; Abdel-Aziz, Mohamed
- Source
- Brazilian Journal of Physics. September 2007 37(3a)
- Subject
- Relativistic Heavy Ions
Event-by-event fluctuations
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0103-9733
Measurements of transverse momentum fluctuations can be used to determine the shear viscosity [1]. We use current data to estimate the viscosity-to-entropy ratio in the range from 0.08 to 0.3, and discuss how future measurements can reduce this uncertainty.