Thermal rho and sigma mesons from chiral symmetry and unitarity

Dobado, A.; Nicola, A. Gomez; Llanes-Estrada, F. J.; Pelaez, J. R.

Thermal rho and sigma mesons from chiral symmetry and unitarity

Authors

Dobado, A.

Nicola, A. Gomez

Llanes-Estrada, F. J.

Pelaez, J. R.

Description

We study the temperature evolution of the rho and sigma mass and width, using a unitary chiral approach. The one-loop pion-pion scattering amplitude in Chiral Perturbation Theory at finite temperature is unitarized via the Inverse Amplitude Method. Our results predict a clear increase with T of both the rho and sigma widths. The masses decrease slightly for high T, while the rho-pion-pion coupling increases. The rho behavior seems to be favored by experimental results. In the sigma case, it signals chiral symmetry restoration.
5 pages, 5 figures, revtex. References and brief comments added. Final version to appear in Phys. Rev. C