Properties of D and D-* mesons in the nuclear medium

2009

We study the properties of D and D-* mesons in nuclear matter within a simultaneous self-consistent coupled-channel unitary approach that implements heavy-quark symmetry. The in-medium solution accounts for Pauli blocking effects and for the D and D-* self-energies in a self-consistent manner. We pay special attention to renormalization of the intermediate propagators in the medium beyond the usual cutoff scheme. We analyze the behavior in the nuclear medium of the rich spectrum of dynamically generated baryonic resonances in the C=1 and S=0 sector and their influence on the self-energy and, hence, the spectral function of D and D-* mesons. The D meson quasiparticle peak mixes with Sigma(c)…