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Properties of the Ds0*(2317)± in hot and dense nuclear matter

Tomona Kinugawa, Àngels Ramos, and Laura Tolos

Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 16 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/y322-d6hk

Abstract

We investigate the properties of the Ds0*(2317)± in hot and dense nuclear matter using a coupled-channel molecular model built on next-to-leading-order heavy meson chiral perturbation theory. In-medium modifications to the Ds0*(2317)+ stem from changes to the DK channel within the coupled DK-Dsη system. As nuclear density increases, the Ds0*(2317)+ quasiparticle peak shifts toward lower energies and broadens, tracking the behavior of the D-meson spectral function. As for temperature effects, those are milder, with the thermal smearing of the Fermi surface and the melting of ΣcN−1 excitations in the D-meson spectral function shifting the Ds0*(2317)+ peak back toward its free-space mass while narrowing it. Conversely, the behavior of the Ds0*(2317)− is governed by the D‾K‾ channel and its medium behavior is driven by the K‾ spectral function. With increasing temperature, the Ds0*(2317)− also approaches its free-space mass, but its width broadens before saturating at high temperatures. Incorporating explicit medium dependencies into the interaction kernel, driven by density and/or temperature variations in the pion decay constant, further shifts the Ds0*(2317)+ mass lower and narrows its width with temperature. As for Ds0*(2317)−, its mass also drops with temperature but its width increases. These contrasting medium behaviors offer a promising pathway to constrain the internal structure of these exotic states.

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