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Selfconsistent Description of a Thermal Piongas

R. Rapp, J. Wambach

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9306016

Abstract

We examine a hot pion gas by including medium modifications of the two-body scattering amplitude as well as mean-field effects selfconsistently. In contrast to earlier calculations, the in-medium T-matrix is rather close to the free one while the mean-field potential agrees well with lowest-order estimates. We also discuss the validity of the quasiparticle approximation. It is found that it is reliable for temperatures up to 150 MeV. Above this temperature off-shell effects in the pion selfenergy become important, especially if the pions are strongly out of chemical equilibrium.

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