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Recent Progress in Effective Field Theory in the One-Nucleon Sector

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-01-08 v1

Abstract

Chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) is the effective field theory of the strong interactions at low energies. We will address the issue of a consistent power counting scheme in a manifestly Lorentz-invariant formulation of baryon ChPT. As applications we show how the inclusion of vector and axial-vector mesons in the calculation of the nucleon electromagnetic and axial form factors, respectively, lead to an improved description of the empirical data. Finally, we will outline a systematic implementation of the Delta(1232) resonance into the effective field theory program.

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@article{arxiv.0710.2394,
  title  = {Recent Progress in Effective Field Theory in the One-Nucleon Sector},
  author = {Stefan Scherer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.2394},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures, invited parallel session lead talk given at the 20th European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (EFB20), Pisa, Italy, 10-14 September 2007

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