Status of chiral perturbation theory

Abstract

The status of chiral perturbation theory in the meson sector is reviewed. The main emphasis is on recent developments in pion pion scattering, in semileptonic decays and in nonleptonic kaon decays. A few other selected topics are also discussed.

Contribution to 8th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Mainz, Sept. 2008, 10 pages

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