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Chiral Perturbation Theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

An introduction to Chiral Perturbation Theory is given including a discussion of power counting, the Wess-Zumino term, the values of the coupling constants and the inclusion of the effects of other resonances.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9411232,
  title  = {Chiral Perturbation Theory},
  author = {J. Bijnens and G. Ecker and J. Gasser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9411232},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

19 pages, latex, 2 figures. To be published in the second edition of the DA$\Phi$NE Physics Handbook, eds. L. Maiani, G. Pancheri and N. Paver.