Introduction to Chiral Symmetry
Nuclear Theory
2007-05-23 v1 Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
These lectures are an attempt to a pedagogical introduction into the elementary concepts of chiral symmetry in nuclear physics. Effective chiral models such as the linear and nonlinear sigma model will be discussed as well as the essential ideas of chiral perturbation theory. Some applications to the physics of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions will be presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9512029,
title = {Introduction to Chiral Symmetry},
author = {Volker Koch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9512029},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
52 pages , PostScript, figures included; Proceedings of the TAPS workshop, Bosen, Germany, Sept. 1995