Leading Order QCD Shear Viscosity from the 3PI Effective Action

Abstract

In this article we calculate the leading order shear viscosity in QCD using the resummed 3PI effective action. We work to 3-loop order in the effective action. We show that the integral equations that resum the pinching and collinear contributions are produced naturally by the formalism. All leading order terms are included, without the need for any kind of power counting arguments.

Comments: 23 pages, 27 figures