Energy-momentum tensor correlators and spectral functions

dc.creatorMeyer, Harvey B.
dc.date2008-06-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:38:39Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:38:39Z
dc.descriptionWe calculate the thermal Euclidean correlators and the spectral functions of the energy-momentum tensor for pure gauge theories, including at non-zero spatial momentum, at leading order in perturbation theory. Our goal is to improve the extraction of transport properties from Euclidean correlators that are computable in lattice QCD. Based on our results and the predictions of hydrodynamics for the structure of the spectral functions at low frequencies, we show that the shear and bulk viscosities can advantageously be extracted from the Euclidean correlators of the conserved charges, energy and momentum, at small but non-vanishing spatial momentum. The spectral functions in these channels are free of the ultraviolet $ω^4$ term which represents a large background to the thermal physics encoded in the correlators of the fluxes.
dc.description14 pages, 1 figure
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3914
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3914
dc.identifierJHEP 0808:031,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/08/031
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/218835
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Lattice
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleEnergy-momentum tensor correlators and spectral functions
dc.typetext

Files

Collections