Pion Decay Constant at Finite Temperature in the Nonlinear Sigma Model

Abstract

We calculate the pion decay constant near the critical temperature of the $O(N)$ nonlinear sigma model in the large $N$ limit. Making use of the known low temperature behavior, we construct a Padé approximant to obtain the behavior of $f_π(T)$ at all temperatures.

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