Fourier Transform of $\frac{|t|}{t^2 +a}$

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I'm solving a physics problem and I need to obtain the Fourier transform of the following real function ($a>0$):

\begin{equation} f(t) = \frac{|t|}{t^2 +a} \end{equation}

It is an even-function and therefore it can be decomposed into a cosine-integral, ie.

\begin{equation} f(t) = \int_{0}^{+\infty} a(\nu)\cos(2\pi\nu t)d\nu \end{equation}

with the coefficients being,

\begin{equation} a(\nu) = 2\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} f(t)\cos(2\pi\nu t)dt \end{equation}

\begin{equation} a(\nu) = 2\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} \frac{|t|}{t^2 +a}\cos(2\pi\nu t)dt \end{equation}

\begin{equation} a(\nu) = 4\int_{0}^{+\infty} \frac{t}{t^2 +a}\cos(2\pi\nu t)dt. \end{equation}

However, I have not been able to solve this. Wolfram also can't. I tried expanding the cosine term into a series, but then I get a series of diverging integrals.

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Computer-aided I obtain the following transform:

$$\frac{G_{1,3}^{2,1}\left(\frac{a \omega ^2}{4}| \begin{array}{c} 0 \\ 0,0,\frac{1}{2} \\ \end{array} \right)}{\sqrt{2}}$$

where $G$ is the MeijerG-Function. Here are two plots, where both variables $a$ and $\omega$ ran from $-1$ to $1$:

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A contour plot, where $a$ and $\omega$ each ran from $-1$ to $1$ looks as follows:

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