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Chiral Unitary approach to meson-meson and meson-baryon interactions and nuclear applications

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We report on recent nonperturbative techniques that combine the information of chiral Lagrangians (with and without resonances) with unitarity in coupled channels and other requirements of the S-matrix theory of the strong interactions. As a result, the region of applicability of such techniques is much larger than the one of Chiral Perturbation Theory allowing one to study also resonance physics. Applications to meson-meson and meson-baryon scattering, as well as to problems where pairs of mesons or a meson and a baryon appear in the initial or final state are shown. Implications in several nuclear problems are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0002193,
  title  = {Chiral Unitary approach to meson-meson and meson-baryon interactions and nuclear applications},
  author = {J. A. Oller and E. Oset and A. Ramos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0002193},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

85 pages, Latex, Review paper to appear in Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys., vol. 45