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The omega meson at high temperatures

R. A. Schneider, W. Weise

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0102189

Abstract

The decays of the omega meson in a heat bath of thermally excited pions is studied within the framework of real-time thermal field theory using an appropriate effective Lagrangian. We show that the omega meson spectrum broadens considerably at temperatures T > 100 MeV, primarily because of omega pi -> pi pi reactions in the thermal environment.

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