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We compute the shear viscosity of QCD with matter, including almost all next-to-leading order corrections — that is, corrections suppressed by one power of g relative to leading order. We argue that the still missing terms are small. The next-to-leading order corrections are large and bring η/s down by more than a factor of 3 at physically relevant couplings. The perturbative expansion is problematic even at T ≃ 100 GeV. The largest next-to-leading order correction to η/s arises from modifications to the \( \widehat{q} \) parameter, which determines the rate of transverse momentum diffusion. We also explore quark number diffusion, and shear viscosity in pure-glue QCD and in QED.
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Ghiglieri, J., Moore, G.D. & Teaney, D. QCD shear viscosity at (almost) NLO. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 179 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2018)179
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