Shear viscosity at finite baryon densities

Abstract

We use the excluded volume Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model with the most up-to-date hadron list to calculate ηT/w at low temperatures and at finite baryon densities ρB. This ηT/w is then matched to a QCD-based shear viscosity calculation of the QGP for different profiles of ηT/w across T,μB including cross-over and critical point transitions. When compared to ideal hydrodynamic trajectories across T,μB, we find that the ηT/w(T,μB) profiles would require initial conditions at much larger baryon density to reach the same freeze-out point.