Finite-temperature effects on D-meson properties

Abstract

We study the spectroscopy and transport properties of charmed mesons in a thermal medium by applying an effective field theory based on chiral and heavy-quark symmetries in the imaginary time formalism. Relying on unitarity constraints and self-consistency we extract the in-medium properties (masses and widths) of $D$ and $D_s$ mesons and their interactions with light hadrons. We report our findings on 1) dynamically generated states, 2) thermal evolution of chiral partners, 3) in-medium scattering amplitudes, and 4) transport coefficients below the chiral restoration temperature.

arXiv comment11 pages, 7 figures. Contribution to the 10th International Workshop on Charm Physics (CHARM2020). Accepted for publication in Proceedings of Science

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