| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1837764 | Nuclear Physics A | 2009 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The role of color-magnetic monopoles in a pure gauge plasma at high temperature T>2Tc is considered. In this temperature regime, monopoles can be considered heavy, rare objects embedded into matter consisting mostly of the usual “electric” quasiparticles, quarks and gluons. The gluon-monopole scattering is found to hardly influence thermodynamic quantities, yet it produces a large transport cross section, significantly exceeding that for pQCD gluon-gluon scattering up to quite high T. This mechanism keeps viscosity small enough for hydrodynamics to work at LHC.
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