Hot and Dense Medium Effects on the $B_s^*$ and $B^*$ Multiplets
Abstract
We present an extensive analysis of the in-medium masses and decay constants of the and 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 (, ), charged (), and neutral (, ) 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 of its vacuum value, even at and , the extreme conditions explored here. The decay constant is far more sensitive, losing up to 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 - and decay-constant shifts between -, 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 and , the mass decreases by , whereas the mass shifts by only , 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}
}
Comments
17 pages,13 figures