Latest documents http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/index/index/ Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:34:59 +0100 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:34:59 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3324 We evaluate the in-medium D and -meson masses in hot hadronic matter induced by interactions with the light hadron sector described in a chiral SU(3) model. The e ective Lagrangian approach is generalized to SU(4) to include charmed mesons. We find that the D-mass drops substantially at finite temperatures and densities, which open the channels of the decay of the charmonium states ( 2, c, J/ ) to D pairs in the thermal medium. The e ects of vacuum polarisations from the baryon sector on the medium modification of the D-meson mass relative to those obtained in the mean field approximation are investigated. The results of the present work are compared to calculations based on the QCD sum-rule approach, the quark-meson coupling model, chiral perturbation theory, as well as to studies of quarkonium dissociation using heavy quark potential from lattice QCD. Amruta Mishra; Elena L. Bratkovskaya; Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich; Stefan Schramm; Horst Stöcker preprint http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3324 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:34:59 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3315 Abstract: The medium modification of kaon and antikaon masses, compatible with low energy KN scattering data, are studied in a chiral SU(3) model. The mutual interactions with baryons in hot hadronic matter and the e ects from the baryonic Dirac sea on the K( ¯K ) masses are examined. The in-medium masses from the chiral SU(3) e ective model are compared to those from chiral perturbation theory. Furthermore, the influence of these in-medium e ects on kaon rapidity distributions and transverse energy spectra as well as the K, ¯K flow pattern in heavy-ion collision experiments at 1.5 to 2 A·GeV are investigated within the HSD transport approach. Detailed predictions on the transverse momentum and rapidity dependence of directed flow v1 and the elliptic flow v2 are provided for Ni+Ni at 1.93 A·GeV within the various models, that can be used to determine the in-medium K± properties from the experimental side in the near future. Amruta Mishra; Elena L. Bratkovskaya; Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich; Stefan Schramm; Horst Stöcker preprint http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3315 Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:16:29 +0100