The $\Delta (1232)$ as an Effective Degree of Freedom in Chiral Perturbation Theory

Abstract

Heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory including spin 3/2 delta resonances as effective degrees of freedom is reviewed. The theory admits a systematic expansion in the small scale $\epsilon$, where $\epsilon$ collectively denotes soft momenta, the pion mass or the delta-nucleon mass difference. Renormalization is discussed in some detail on the example of the scalar sector of one-nucleon processes, and a reformulation of the principle of resonance saturation for counterterms of the HBChPT lagrangian is sketched. As an application, the polarizabilities of the nucleon are discussed at order ${\epsilon }^3$.

18 pages, Latex using lamuphys.sty, 2 figures embedded with epsfig.sty. To appear in Proc. of Workshop on Chiral Dynamics 1997, Mainz, Germany, Sept. 1997

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