Higher derivative holography and temperature dependence of QGP viscosities

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Main Authors: Apostolidis, Thomas, Gürsoy, Umut, Préau, Edwan
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author Apostolidis, Thomas
Gürsoy, Umut
Préau, Edwan
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Gürsoy, Umut
Préau, Edwan
contents Recent Bayesian analyses of heavy ion collision data have established a non-trivial temperature dependence of the shear and bulk viscosity per entropy. Motivated by this, we consider higher derivative corrections to realistic, bottom-up holographic models of quark-gluon plasma based on five-dimensional Einstein-dilaton theories and determine the dilaton potentials in the higher derivative terms by matching the Bayesian analyses. A byproduct of our analysis is the bulk viscosity that follows from the holographic V-QCD theory. Higher derivative corrections when treated perturbatively lead to tension with existing data. We investigate possible resolutions.
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spellingShingle Higher derivative holography and temperature dependence of QGP viscosities
Apostolidis, Thomas
Gürsoy, Umut
Préau, Edwan
High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Recent Bayesian analyses of heavy ion collision data have established a non-trivial temperature dependence of the shear and bulk viscosity per entropy. Motivated by this, we consider higher derivative corrections to realistic, bottom-up holographic models of quark-gluon plasma based on five-dimensional Einstein-dilaton theories and determine the dilaton potentials in the higher derivative terms by matching the Bayesian analyses. A byproduct of our analysis is the bulk viscosity that follows from the holographic V-QCD theory. Higher derivative corrections when treated perturbatively lead to tension with existing data. We investigate possible resolutions.
title Higher derivative holography and temperature dependence of QGP viscosities
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19195