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Effect of pion thermal width on the sigma spectrum

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study the effect of the thermal width of π\pi on the spectral function of σ\sigma. In order to take into account a finite thermal width of π\pi, we replace the internal pion mass in the self-energy of σ\sigma with that of the complex pole found in a previous paper. The obtained spectral function for T\aplg100MeVT\aplg 100 {\rm MeV} turns out to possess two broad peaks. Although a sharp peak at σππ\sigma\to\pi\pi threshold was observed in the one-loop calculation without the pion thermal width, the peak is shown to be smeared out. We also search for the poles of the σ\sigma propagator and analyze the behavior of the spectral function with these poles.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0310296,
  title  = {Effect of pion thermal width on the sigma spectrum},
  author = {Tetsuo Nishikawa and Yoshimasa Hidaka and Munehisa Ohtani and Osamu Morimatsu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0310296},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Contribution to the International Workshop on QCD: QCD@Work 2003 - Conversano (Italy) 14-18 June 2003 (eConf C030614)