Diffusion of Conserved Charges in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

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We demonstrate that the diffusion currents do not depend only on gradients of their corresponding charge density, but that the different diffusion charge currents are coupled. This happens in such a way that it is possible for density gradients of a given charge to generate dissipative currents of another charge. Within this scheme, the charge diffusion coefficient is best viewed as a matrix, in which the diagonal terms correspond to the usual charge diffusion coefficients, while the off-diagonal terms describe the coupling between the different currents. In this Letter, we calculate for the first time the complete diffusion matrix for hot and dense nuclear matter, including baryon, electric, and strangeness charges. We find that the baryon diffusion current is strongly affected by baryon charge gradients but also by its coupling to gradients in strangeness. The electric charge diffusion current is found to be strongly affected by electric and strangeness gradients, whereas strangeness currents depend mostly on strange and baryon gradients.

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Greif, M., Fotakis, J. A., Denicol, G. S., & Greiner, C. (2018). Diffusion of Conserved Charges in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions. Physical Review Letters, 120(24). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.242301

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