TY - INPR A1 - Gao, Song A1 - Gale, Charles A1 - Ernst, Christoph A1 - Stöcker, Horst A1 - Greiner, Walter T1 - Rho meson broadening in hot and dense hadronic matter N2 - The modification of the width of rho mesons due to in-medium decays and collisions is evaluated. The decay width is calculated from the imaginary part of the one-loop selfenergy at finite temperature. The collision width is related to the cross sections of the rho + pion and the rho + nucleon reactions. A calculation based on an e ective Lagrangian shows the importance of including the direct pho pi - > pho pi scattering which is dominated by the a1 exchange. A large broadening of the spectral function is found, accompanied by a strength suppression at the pole. http://www.arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9812059 KW - Rho-Meson KW - Verbreitung KW - In-Medium Zerfall KW - rho meson KW - broadening KW - in-medium decay Y1 - 2005 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3112 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-22884 ER -