Electric conductivity of hot pion matter

Abstract

The determination of transport coefficients plays a central role in characterizing hot and dense nuclear matter. Currently, there are significant discrepancies between various calculations of the electric conductivity of hot hadronic matter. In the present work we calculate the electric conductivity of hot pion matter by extracting it from the electromagnetic spectral function, via its zero energy limit at vanishing 3-momentum, within the Vector Dominance Model (VDM). Since within the VDM the photon couples to the hadronic currents primarily through the $\rho$ meson, we use hadronic many-body theory to calculate the $\rho$-meson's self-energy in hot pion matter, by dressing its pion cloud with thermal $\pi$-$\rho$ and $\pi$-$\sigma$ loops including vertex corrections to maintain gauge invariance. In particular, we analyze the low-energy transport peak of the spectral function, extract its behavior with temperature and compare to (the results of) existing approaches in the literature.

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