On viscous flow and azimuthal anisotropy of the quark–gluon plasma in a strong magnetic field

Kirill Tuchin
2012 Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics  
We calculate the viscous pressure tensor of the quark-gluon plasma in strong magnetic field. It is azimuthally anisotropic and is characterized by five shear viscosity coefficients, four of which vanish when the field strength eB is much larger than the plasma temperature squared. We argue, that the azimuthally anisotropic viscous pressure tensor generates the transverse flow with asymmetry as large as 1/3, even not taking into account the collision geometry. We conclude, that the magnitude of
more » ... he shear viscosity extracted from the experimental data ignoring the magnetic field must be underestimated.
doi:10.1088/0954-3899/39/2/025010 fatcat:jcmmz7t7hbfs7mhoigt3nbxdoq