Thermal meson properties within Chiral Perturbation Theory

We report on our recent work about the description of a meson gas below the chiral phase transition within the framework of Chiral Perturbation Theory. As an alternative to the standard treatment, we present a calculation of the quark condensate which combines the virial expansion and the meson-meso...

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Autores: Gómez Nicola, Ángel, Dobado González, Antonio, Llanes Estrada, Felipe José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/58625
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/58625
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:53
Linear Sigma-Model
Bethe-Salpeter Approach
Pi-Pi-Scattering
Temperature Field-Theory
Qcd Phase-Transition
Heavy-Ion Collisions
Low-Mass Dileptons
Art. No. 076001
Finite-Temperature
Rho-Meson
Física (Física)
22 Física
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Sumario:We report on our recent work about the description of a meson gas below the chiral phase transition within the framework of Chiral Perturbation Theory. As an alternative to the standard treatment, we present a calculation of the quark condensate which combines the virial expansion and the meson-meson scattering data. We have also calculated the full one-loop elastic pion scattering amplitude at finite temperature and we have unitarized the amplitude using the Inverse Amplitude Method in order to reproduce the temperature effects on the mass and width of the p and a resonances. Our results show a clear increase of the thermal p width, as expected from previous analysis. The results for the a are consistent with Chiral Symmetry Restoration. We comment on the relevance of our results within the context of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions.