Related papers: $\pi N\to \eta N$ process in a $\chi$QM approach
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The work that Peter Schuck and I carried out during the nineties in collaboration with the Lyon and Darmstadt theory groups is summarized. I retrace how our theoretical developments combined with experimental results concerning the…
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We use a dispersion representation based on unitarity and analyticity to study the low energy $\gamma^* N\rightarrow \pi N$ process in the $S_{11}$ channel. Final state interactions among the $\pi N$ system are critical to this analysis.…
I describe recent progress towards a theory of the NN force which captures the consequences of QCD's chiral symmetry and the pattern of its breaking, and is formulated as an expansion in a ratio of low and high mass scales, M_{lo}/M_{hi}.…
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New ongoing experimental activities that have direct reference to pi^0 decay modes call for a new theoretical study in this area. We will summarize some details and interesting facts that concern main decay modes of this lightest meson.
Elastic pion-nucleon scattering is analyzed in the framework of chiral perturbation theory up to fourth order within the heavy-baryon expansion and a covariant approach based on an extended on-mass-shell renormalization scheme. We discuss…
I study an aspect of chiral perturbation theory (\chi PT) which enables one to ``bridge'' different reactions. That is, an operator fixed in one of the reactions can then be used to predict the other. For this purpose, I calculate the…