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Infrared regularization with spin-3/2 fields

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present a Lorentz-invariant formulation of baryon chiral perturbation theory including spin-3/2 fields. Particular attention is paid to the projection on the spin-3/2 components of the delta fields. We also discuss the nucleon mass and the pion-nucleon sigma term.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0303198,
  title  = {Infrared regularization with spin-3/2 fields},
  author = {Véronique Bernard and Thomas R. Hemmert and Ulf-G. Meißner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0303198},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pp, 1 fig