{
  "id": "nucl-th/9401003",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1994-01-06T02:00:53.000Z",
  "updated": "1994-01-06T02:00:53.000Z",
  "title": "Properties of the phi meson at finite temperature",
  "authors": [
    "Kevin L. Haglin",
    "Charles Gale"
  ],
  "comment": "13 pages in ReVTeX 3.0, 11 uuencoded Postscript figures (enclosed), MSUCL-910, McGill 93/41",
  "journal": "Nucl.Phys. B421 (1994) 613-634",
  "doi": "10.1016/0550-3213(94)90519-3",
  "categories": [
    "nucl-th",
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We calculate the $\\phi$-meson propagator at finite temperature at the one--loop order. The real and imaginary parts are studied separately in full kinematic ranges. From this activity we investigate how temperature affects such things as decay widths and dispersion relations. {}From here we estimate the thermal rate of lepton pair radiation in a hadron gas proceeding through $K^{+}K^{-}\\to \\phi \\to \\ell^{+}\\ell^{-}$ and $\\pi\\rho\\to \\phi \\to \\ell^{+}\\ell^{-}$. We find several interesting things. From the dispersion relations we learn the effective mass calculated this way increases with temperature as does the partial width, but only slightly. At $T=200$ MeV, the mass increases by $\\sim$ 4 MeV and the partial width increases by 34\\%. Polarizations are indistinguishable for practical purposes.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1994-01-06T02:00:53.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "finite temperature",
      "phi meson",
      "dispersion relations",
      "properties",
      "lepton pair radiation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "Elsevier",
      "journal": "Nucl. Phys. B"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "RevTeX",
      "pages": 13,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 371218
    }
  }
}