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Chiral perturbation theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We give a brief introduction to chiral perturbation theory in its various settings. We discuss some applications of recent interest including chiral extrapolations for lattice gauge theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0611231,
  title  = {Chiral perturbation theory},
  author = {Véronique Bernard and Ulf-G. Meißner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0611231},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Commissioned article for Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci., 27 pp, 7 figs