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Title: Phenomenological Constraints on the Transport Properties of QCD Matter with Data-Driven Model Averaging

Abstract

Using combined data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion and Large Hadron Colliders, we constrain the shear and bulk viscosities of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at temperatures of ~150-350 MeV. We use Bayesian inference to translate experimental and theoretical uncertainties into probabilistic constraints for the viscosities. With Bayesian model averaging we propagate an estimate of the model uncertainty generated by the transition from hydrodynamics to hadron transport in the plasma's final evolution stage, providing the most reliable phenomenological constraints to date on the QGP viscosities.

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Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Contributing Org.:
JETSCAPE Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1797530
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1809071; OSTI ID: 1818260; OSTI ID: 1885103
Report Number(s):
BNL-221848-2021-JAAM; LLNL-JRNL-826818
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; 242301
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; AC52-07NA27344; SC0013460; SC0004286; SC0012704; FG02-92ER40713; FG02-05ER41367
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 126 Journal Issue: 24; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Everett, D., Ke, W., Paquet, J. -F., Vujanovic, G., Bass, S. A., Du, L., Gale, C., Heffernan, M., Heinz, U., Liyanage, D., Luzum, M., Majumder, A., McNelis, M., Shen, C., Xu, Y., Angerami, A., Cao, S., Chen, Y., Coleman, J., Cunqueiro, L., Dai, T., Ehlers, R., Elfner, H., Fan, W., Fries, R. J., Garza, F., He, Y., Jacak, B. V., Jacobs, P. M., Jeon, S., Kim, B., Kordell, M., Kumar, A., Mak, S., Mulligan, J., Nattrass, C., Oliinychenko, D., Park, C., Putschke, J. H., Roland, G., Schenke, B., Schwiebert, L., Silva, A., Sirimanna, C., Soltz, R. A., Tachibana, Y., Wang, X. -N., Wolpert, R. L., and JETSCAPE Collaboration. Phenomenological Constraints on the Transport Properties of QCD Matter with Data-Driven Model Averaging. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.242301.
Everett, D., Ke, W., Paquet, J. -F., Vujanovic, G., Bass, S. A., Du, L., Gale, C., Heffernan, M., Heinz, U., Liyanage, D., Luzum, M., Majumder, A., McNelis, M., Shen, C., Xu, Y., Angerami, A., Cao, S., Chen, Y., Coleman, J., Cunqueiro, L., Dai, T., Ehlers, R., Elfner, H., Fan, W., Fries, R. J., Garza, F., He, Y., Jacak, B. V., Jacobs, P. M., Jeon, S., Kim, B., Kordell, M., Kumar, A., Mak, S., Mulligan, J., Nattrass, C., Oliinychenko, D., Park, C., Putschke, J. H., Roland, G., Schenke, B., Schwiebert, L., Silva, A., Sirimanna, C., Soltz, R. A., Tachibana, Y., Wang, X. -N., Wolpert, R. L., & JETSCAPE Collaboration. Phenomenological Constraints on the Transport Properties of QCD Matter with Data-Driven Model Averaging. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.242301
Everett, D., Ke, W., Paquet, J. -F., Vujanovic, G., Bass, S. A., Du, L., Gale, C., Heffernan, M., Heinz, U., Liyanage, D., Luzum, M., Majumder, A., McNelis, M., Shen, C., Xu, Y., Angerami, A., Cao, S., Chen, Y., Coleman, J., Cunqueiro, L., Dai, T., Ehlers, R., Elfner, H., Fan, W., Fries, R. J., Garza, F., He, Y., Jacak, B. V., Jacobs, P. M., Jeon, S., Kim, B., Kordell, M., Kumar, A., Mak, S., Mulligan, J., Nattrass, C., Oliinychenko, D., Park, C., Putschke, J. H., Roland, G., Schenke, B., Schwiebert, L., Silva, A., Sirimanna, C., Soltz, R. A., Tachibana, Y., Wang, X. -N., Wolpert, R. L., and JETSCAPE Collaboration. Thu . "Phenomenological Constraints on the Transport Properties of QCD Matter with Data-Driven Model Averaging". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.242301.
@article{osti_1797530,
title = {Phenomenological Constraints on the Transport Properties of QCD Matter with Data-Driven Model Averaging},
author = {Everett, D. and Ke, W. and Paquet, J. -F. and Vujanovic, G. and Bass, S. A. and Du, L. and Gale, C. and Heffernan, M. and Heinz, U. and Liyanage, D. and Luzum, M. and Majumder, A. and McNelis, M. and Shen, C. and Xu, Y. and Angerami, A. and Cao, S. and Chen, Y. and Coleman, J. and Cunqueiro, L. and Dai, T. and Ehlers, R. and Elfner, H. and Fan, W. and Fries, R. J. and Garza, F. and He, Y. and Jacak, B. V. and Jacobs, P. M. and Jeon, S. and Kim, B. and Kordell, M. and Kumar, A. and Mak, S. and Mulligan, J. and Nattrass, C. and Oliinychenko, D. and Park, C. and Putschke, J. H. and Roland, G. and Schenke, B. and Schwiebert, L. and Silva, A. and Sirimanna, C. and Soltz, R. A. and Tachibana, Y. and Wang, X. -N. and Wolpert, R. L. and JETSCAPE Collaboration},
abstractNote = {Using combined data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion and Large Hadron Colliders, we constrain the shear and bulk viscosities of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at temperatures of ~150-350 MeV. We use Bayesian inference to translate experimental and theoretical uncertainties into probabilistic constraints for the viscosities. With Bayesian model averaging we propagate an estimate of the model uncertainty generated by the transition from hydrodynamics to hadron transport in the plasma's final evolution stage, providing the most reliable phenomenological constraints to date on the QGP viscosities.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.242301},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 24,
volume = 126,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Thu Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}

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