Masses of hadrons and nucleon-nucleon interaction at finite temperature and density in a quantum hadrodynamics model.

Abstract

The effective masses and the screening masses of hadrons at finite temperature and density for the quantum hadrodynamics two (QHD-II) model have been investigated under the one-loop approximation. The nucleon-nucleon interaction through pion, sigma, omega, and rho mesons exchange in hot nuclear matter is given. We have found that the potential well of the nucleon-nucleon interaction becomes shallow as the temperature and/or density increases. At a critical temperature and/or a critical density, the potential well disappears.