Electrical conductivity of Hot and Dense QCD matter at RHIC BES energies: A Color String Percolation Approach

TL;DR

This paper investigates the electrical conductivity of hot, dense QCD matter using the Color String Percolation Model, comparing results with lattice QCD and other models, revealing weak temperature dependence and good agreement with BAMPS.

Contribution

It introduces the CSPM approach to calculate electrical conductivity of QCD matter and compares it with lattice QCD and BAMPS results, highlighting its effectiveness.

Findings

Electrical conductivity shows weak temperature dependence in CSPM.

CSPM results agree well with BAMPS predictions.

The study provides insights into transport properties of QCD matter.

Abstract

Recently, transport coefficients viz. shear viscosity, electrical conductivity etc. of strongly interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collisions have drawn considerable interest. We study the normalised electrical conductivity ($\sigma_{\rm el}$/T) of hot QCD matter as a function of temperature (T) using the Color String Percolation Model (CSPM). We also study the temperature dependence of shear viscosity and its ratio with electrical conductivity for the QCD matter. We compare CSPM estimations with various existing results and lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (lQCD) predictions with (2+1) dynamical flavours. We find that $\sigma_{\rm el}$/T in CSPM has a very weak dependence on the temperature. We compare CSPM results with those obtained in Boltzmann Approach to Multi-Parton Scatterings (BAMPS) model. A good agreement is found between CSPM results and predictions of BAMPS with fixed strong coupling constant.