%0 Journal Article %A Peláez Sagredo, José Ramón %T Hadronic gas chiral phase transition within generalized chiral perturbation theory %D 1999 %@ 1550-7998 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60094 %X We study the temperature evolution of the [(q) over bar q] condensate below the chiral phase transition. The hadronic gas is described using a virial expansion within generalized chiral perturbation theory. In such a way, we can implement both the large or small chiral condensate scenarios and analyze the condensate dependence on the values of the lightest quark masses. %~