Thermoelectric Effect and Seebeck Coefficient of Hot and Dense Hadronic Matter in the Hadron Resonance Gas Model

Abstract

We study the thermoelectric effect of a baryon-rich plasma, with a temperature gradient, produced in heavy-ion collision experiments. We estimate the Seebeck coefficient for the hot and dense hadronic matter within the framework of relativistic kinetic theory using relaxation time approximation. For quantitative analysis, we use the hadron resonance gas model with hadrons and resonance states up to a cutoff in the mass as 2.25 GeV. The current produced due to temperature gradient can be a source of a magnetic field in heavy-ion collision experiments.