The decay of the omega meson in a heat bath of thermally excited pions is studied within the framework of real-time thermal field theory using an appropriate effective Lagrangian. We show that the omega meson spectrum broadens considerably at temperatures T > 100 MeV, primarily because of omega pi --> pi pi reactions in the thermal environment. @ 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
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Calif State Polytech Univ Pomona, Dept Chem & Mat Engn, Pomona, CA 91768 USACalif State Polytech Univ Pomona, Dept Chem & Mat Engn, Pomona, CA 91768 USA