Chiral perturbation theory

Abstract

I present an outline of chiral perturbation theory and discuss some recent developments in the field.

10 pages (LaTex), 1 figure embedded with epsfig.sty. Uses espcrc2.sty. Invited talk given at the QCD Euroconference 99, Montpellier, 7-13th July, 1999. The present article contains additional references as compared to the version that will appear in the proceedings

References in corpus (3)

• Renormalization of chiral perturbation theory to order p^6
• Matching Heavy Particle Approach to Relativistic Theory
• Virtual photons in baryon chiral perturbation theory

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