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We investigate the influence of medium corrections to the pion dispersion relation on the pion dynamics in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions. To do so a pion potential is extracted from the in-medium dispersion relation and used in QMD calculations and thus we take care of both, real and imaginary part of the pion optical potential. The potentials are determined from different sources, i.e., from the Δ-hole model and from phenomenological approaches. Depending on the strength of the potential, a reduction of the anticorrelation of pion and nucleon flow in noncentral collisions is observed as well as an enhancement of the high-energetic yield in transverse pion spectra. A comparison to experiments, in particular to pₜ spectra for the reaction Ca+Ca at 1 GeV/nucleon and the pion in-plane flow in Ne+Pb collisions at 800 MeV/nucleon, generally favors a weak potential.
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