Decuplet baryons in a hot medium

Abstract

The thermal properties of the light decuplet baryons are investigated in the framework of the thermal QCD sum rules. In particular, the behavior of the mass and residue of the Delta, Sigma*, Xi*, and Omega baryons with respect to temperature are analyzed taking into account the additional operators appearing in the Wilson expansion at finite temperature. It is found that the mass and residue of these particles remain overall unaffected up to T similar or equal to 150 MeV but, beyond this point, they start to diminish considerably.