Properties of heavy mesons at finite temperature
We study the properties of heavy mesons using a unitarized approach in a hot pionic medium, based on an effective hadronic theory. The interaction between the heavy mesons and pseudoscalar Goldstone bosons is described by a chiral Lagrangian at next-to-leading order in the chiral expansion and leading order in the heavy-quark mass expansion so as to satisfy heavy-quark spin symmetry. The meson-meson scattering problem in coupled channels with finite-temperature corrections is solved in a self-consistent manner. Our results show that the masses of the ground-state charmed mesons D(0^-)D(0−) and D_s(1^-)Ds(1−) decrease in a pionic environment at T\neq 0T≠0 and they acquire a substantial width. As a consequence, the behaviour of excited mesonic states (D_{s0}^*(2317)^\pmDs0*(2317)± and D_0^*(2300)^{0,\pm}D0*(2300)0,±), generated dynamically in our heavy-light molecular model, is also modified at T\neq 0T≠0. The aim is to test our results against Lattice QCD calculations in the future.