C. Fuchs et al., INFLUENCE OF THE IN-MEDIUM PION DISPERSION-RELATION IN HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS - REPLY, Physical review. C. Nuclear physics, 56(2), 1997, pp. 1189-1190
The energy of pions in nuclei as a function of momentum and density (a
nd temperature) is an important ingredient, e.g., for pion production
in heavy ion collisions. In spite of many efforts over the last 25 yea
rs one is not yet able to calculate reliably this dispersion relation
from first principles. At the moment it seems best to use this relatio
n determined by experiments (at least at lower energies and densities)
.