Chiral Perturbation Theory: a Primer
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-09-25 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Recently methods have been developed which exploit the chiral symmetry of QCD in order to make rigorous contact with low energy particle physics phenomenology. In these lectures we present a pedagogical introduction to these techniques.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9510344,
title = {Chiral Perturbation Theory: a Primer},
author = {Barry R. Holstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9510344},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
42 pages, standard Latex file, lectures delivered at National Summer School in Nuclear Physics, June 1995