INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, May 1995

From: The Second DAFNE Physics Handbook

Chapter 3: Chiral Perturbation Theory

Eds. L. Maiani, G. Pancheri, N. Paver

Supported by the INFN, by the EC under the HCM contract number CHRX-CT920026 and by the authors home institutions.

Chiral Perturbation Theory

J. Bijnens, G. Ecker and J. Gasser

NORDITA, Blegdamsvej 17, DK--2100 Copenhagen

Inst. Theor. Physik, Univ. Wien, Boltzmanngasse 5, A--1090 Wien

Inst. Theor. Physik, Univ. Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, CH--3012 Bern

• 1 Prelude
• 2 Effective low--energy theory
  • 2.1 One--loop graphs
  • 2.2 Local action at order
  • 2.3 Chiral anomaly
  • 2.4 The low--energy constants
  • 2.5 Chiral power counting
• 3 Meson resonances in CHPT
  • 3.1 Antisymmetric tensor field formulation
  • 3.2 Alternative descriptions for spin--1 fields
• References