Abstract:
We study the transport properties of strongly interacting matter in the context of ultrarelativistic heavy
ion collision experiments. We calculate the transport coefficients viz. shear viscosity (η) and electrical
conductivity (σel) of the quark gluon plasma phase in the presence of momentum anisotropy arising from
different expansion rates of the medium in longitudinal and transverse direction. We solve the relativistic
Boltzmann kinetic equation in relaxation time approximation to calculate the shear viscosity and electrical
conductivity. The calculation are performed within the quasiparticle model to estimate these transport
coefficients and discuss the connection between them. We also compare the electrical conductivity results
calculated from the quasiparticle model with the ideal case. We compare our results with the corresponding
results obtained in different lattice as well as model calculations.
