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Second order hydrodynamics based on effective kinetic theory and electromagnetic signals from QGP
We study thermal particle production from relativistic heavy ion collisions
in presence of viscosities by employing the recently developed second order
dissipative hydrodynamic formulation estimated within a quasiparticle
description of thermal QCD (Quantum Chromo-Dynamics) medium. The sensitivity of
shear and bulk viscous pressures to the temperature dependence of relaxation
time is analyzed within one dimensional boost invariant expansion of quark
gluon plasma (QGP). The dissipative corrections to the phase-space distribution
functions are obtained from the Chapman-Enskog like iterative solution of
effective Boltzmann equation in the relaxation time approximation. Thermal
dilepton and photon production rates for QGP are calculated by employing this
viscous modified distribution function. Particle emission yields are quantified
for the longitudinal expansion of QGP with different temperature dependent
relaxation times. Our analysis employing this second order hydrodynamic model
indicates that the particle spectra gets enhanced by both bulk and shear
viscosities and is well behaved. Also, the particle yields are found to be
sensitive to relaxation time.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figure
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