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We discuss the recent literature on the treatment of final state interactions in K -> pi pi. Various approaches are compared and particular emphasis is given to the possibility of combining dispersive methods with lattice input. Recent…
The near-threshold n p -> d pi0 cross section is calculated in chiral perturbation theory to next-to-leading order in the expansion parameter sqrt{M m_pi}/Lambda_chi. At this order irreducible pion loops contribute to the relevant…
In recent years, as experimental data on the excited $\Xi(1620)$ and $\Xi(1690)$ states have accumulated, theoretical analyses based on chiral dynamics have also been actively pursued. In this study, we construct theoretical models within…
A confined quark model study in a couple of chirally anomalous processes is presented in comparison with effective meson Lagrangian approaches of various kind. The processes considered are \pi^0 \to \gamma \gamma and \gamma \to \pi^+ \pi^-…
We show that lattice calculation of K --> pi pi and $epe$ amplitudes for (8,1) and (27,1) operators to O(p^4) in chiral perturbation theory is feasible when one uses K --> pi pi computations at the two unphysical kinematics allowed by the…
We develop a resonance chiral theory without any a priori limitation on the number of derivatives in the hadronic operators. Through an exhaustive analysis of the resonance lagrangian and by means of field redefinitions, we find that the…
A non-perturbative method which combines constraints from chiral symmetry breaking and coupled channel unitarity is used to describe the meson-meson interaction up to about 1.2 GeV. The approach uses the O(p^2) and O(p^4) chiral…
We complete and improve the fits to experimental $\pi\pi$ scattering amplitudes, both at low and high energies, that we performed in the previous papers of this series. We then verify that the corresponding amplitudes satisfy analyticity…
We propose a new method to obtain the K -> pi pi amplitude from K -> pi which allows one to fully account for the effects of final state interactions. The method is based on a set of dispersion relations for the K -> pi pi amplitude in…
Near threshold pion production experiments have been recently carried out and used to extract S--wave $\pi\pi$ scattering lengths. We emphasize here that at present these processes are related only at the tree level (and its first…
We present an exploratory calculation of the $I=2$ $\pi-\pi$ scattering amplitude at threshold using Wilson fermions in the quenched approximation, including all the required contractions. We find good agreement with the predictions of…
We solve the dispersion relation for the P-wave pi pi amplitude.We discuss the role of the left hand cut vs Castillejo-Dalitz-Dyson (CDD), pole contribution and compare the solution with a generic quark model description. We review the the…
We extend our model for the pion, which we used previously to calculate its diagonal structure function, to the off-forward case. The imaginary part of the off-forward gamma* pi -> gamma* pi scattering amplitude is evaluated in the chiral…
As a step toward performing a complete coupled-channels analysis of the world data of pi N, gamma^* N --> pi N, eta N, pi pi N reactions, the pi N --> pi pi N reactions are investigated starting with the dynamical coupled-channels model…
I summarize the results of the complete one--loop chiral perturbation theory calculation performed recently. It is shown that it allows to accurately pin down the isospin two, S--wave $\pi \pi$ scattering length $a_0^2$. On the other hand,…
The aim of this paper is to investigate an efficient strategy that allows to obtain pi-pi phase shifts and rho meson properties from QCD lattice data with high precision. For this purpose we evaluate the levels of the pi-pi system in the…
We have calculated the KK bar --> KK bar scattering amplitude to next to leading order in Chiral Perturbation Theory. Then, making use of a unitarization procedure with one or several coupled channels (\pi\pi, KK bar in our case) we have…
The relationship between the pionium lifetime and the $\pi\pi$ scattering lengths is established, including the sizable electromagnetic corrections. The bound state formalism that is used is that of constraint theory which provides a…
Elastic pion-pion and pion-nucleon scattering are reviewed in the context of chiral perturbation theory. Theoretical results from systematic low-energy expansions to O(p^6) for pion-pion and to O(p^3) for pion-nucleon scattering are…
We focus on a powerful aspect of chiral perturbation theory (chi PT) which provides us with a ``bridge'' over different reactions. For this purpose, we study a contact operator which contributes p-wave pi-production and several weak…