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Hot and Dense Medium Effects on the $B_s^*$ and $B^*$ Multiplets

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-07-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We present an extensive analysis of the in-medium masses and decay constants of the Bs(5415)B_s^*(5415) and B(5325)B^*(5325) multiplets, including both particles and antiparticles, using QCD sum rules at finite temperature and density. The OPE incorporates the full temperature- and density-dependent contributions from the quark, gluon, and mixed condensates. Computing the strange (Bs0B_s^{*0}, Bˉs0\bar{B}_s^{*0}), charged (B±B^{*\pm}), and neutral (B0B^{*0}, Bˉ0\bar{B}^{*0}) doublet properties allows us to study the effects of flavor symmetry breaking, strangeness, and heavy-quark decoupling on the beauty vector mesons in the medium. Our results indicate that the mass is remarkably resistant to the medium across the entire multiplet: no state loses more than 13%\sim 13\% of its vacuum value, even at T=TcT = T_c and n=5n0n = 5n_0, the extreme conditions explored here. The decay constant is far more sensitive, losing up to 78%\sim 78\% at the same point. Baryon density clearly dominates the medium response, while temperature plays a secondary role until the system approaches the deconfinement crossover. At zero density, every state loses almost the same fraction of its mass and decay constant: mass shifts lie between (0.5-(0.5-1.1)%1.1)\% and decay-constant shifts between (3.9-(3.9-5.3)%5.3)\%, regardless of charge or flavor, so temperature alone does not distinguish a particle from its antiparticle. At finite baryon density, a clear particle-antiparticle asymmetry emerges: at T=0T = 0 and n=5n0n = 5n_0, the Bˉ0\bar{B}^{*0} mass decreases by 12.9%12.9\%, whereas the B0B^{*0} mass shifts by only 6.1%6.1\%, a gap of nearly seven percentage points driven entirely by the vector self-energy. This provides a theoretical basis for the future heavy-ion collision program at RHIC, LHC, FAIR, and NICA.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.22419,
  title  = {Hot and Dense Medium Effects on the $B_s^*$ and $B^*$ Multiplets},
  author = {K. Azizi and N. Er and J. Y. Süngü},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.22419},
  year   = {2026}
}

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17 pages,13 figures