We study the properties of heavy mesons using a unitarized approach
in a hot pionic medium, based on an effective hadronic theory. The
interaction between the heavy mesons and pseudoscalar Goldstone bosons
is described by a chiral Lagrangian at next-to-leading order in the
chiral expansion and leading order in the heavy-quark mass expansion so
as to satisfy heavy-quark spin symmetry. The meson-meson scattering
problem in coupled channels with finite-temperature corrections is
solved in a self-consistent manner. Our results show that the masses of
the ground-state charmed mesons D(0^-)D(0−)
and D_s(1^-)Ds(1−)
decrease in a pionic environment at T\neq 0T≠0
and they acquire a substantial width. As a consequence, the behaviour of
excited mesonic states (D_{s0}^*(2317)^\pmDs0*(2317)±
and D_0^*(2300)^{0,\pm}D0*(2300)0,±),
generated dynamically in our heavy-light molecular model, is also
modified at T\neq 0T≠0.
The aim is to test our results against Lattice QCD calculations in the
future.