Electromagnetic effects in the pion dispersion relation at finite temperature

Abstract

We investigate the charged-neutral pion self-energy difference at finite temperature. Within Chiral Perturbation Theory we extend previous analysis in the chiral and soft pion limits. Our analysis with physical masses leads to additional contributions for temperatures typical of a meson gas, including a momentum-dependent function for the self energy. In addition, a nonzero imaginary part arises, which we define consistently in the Coulomb gauge and comes from an infrared enhanced contribution due to thermal bath photons. For distributions typical of a heavy-ion meson gas, the charged and neutral pion masses and their difference depend on temperature through slowly increasing functions. Chiral symmetry restoration is ultimately responsible for keeping the corrections smooth and compatible with observed pion spectra. We study phenomenological effects related to the electromagnetic damping leading to corrections for transport coefficients and neutral-charged mean free times differences. An important aspect is the connection with chiral symmetry restoration through the relation of the pion mass difference with the vector-axial spectral function difference, which holds at $T=0$ due to a sum rule in the chiral and soft pion limits. We analyze the modifications of that sum rule including nonzero pion masses and temperature, up to order $T^2$ and $M_{\pi }^2$. Both effects produce terms making the pion mass difference grow against chiral-restoring decreasing contributions. Finally, we analyze the corrections to the previous ChPT and sum rule results within the resonance saturation framework at finite temperature, including explicitly $\rho$ and $a_1$ exchanges. Our results show that the ChPT result is robust at low and intermediate temperatures, the leading corrections being of order $T^2{M}_{\pi }^2/M_R^2$ with $M_R$ the involved resonance masses.

arXiv comment28 pages, 7 figures. Version accepted for publication in Physical Review D

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