학술논문

Phenomenological Constraints on the Transport Properties of QCD Matter with Data-Driven Model Averaging
Document Type
article
Source
Physical Review Letters. 126(24)
Subject
Nuclear and Plasma Physics
Particle and High Energy Physics
Physical Sciences
JETSCAPE Collaboration
hep-ph
nucl-ex
nucl-th
Mathematical Sciences
Engineering
General Physics
Mathematical sciences
Physical sciences
Language
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.