Dropping Sigma-Meson Mass and In-Medium S-Wave pion-pion Correlations

Abstract

The influence of a dropping sigma-meson mass on previously calculated in-medium pion-pion correlations in the J=I=0 (sigma-meson) channel is investigated. It is found that the invariant-mass distribution around the vacuum threshold experiences a further strong enhancement with respect to standard many-body effects. The relevance of this result for the explanation of recent $A(\pi ,2\pi )X$ data is pointed out.

Comments: Short note submitted to PRC, 3 pages, 2 Postscript figures, using revtex. (correction to author's address)