Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 198, 95-116 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2011-01485-0
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2011-01485-0
Review
Chiral effective field theories of the strong interactions
1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
2 Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 55099 Mainz, Germany
a e-mail: schindler@sc.edu
b e-mail: scherer@kph.uni-mainz.de
Received:
8
July
2011
Revised:
21
July
2011
Published online:
23
September
2011
Effective field theories of the strong interactions based on the approximate chiral symmetry of QCD provide a model-independent approach to low-energy hadron physics. We give a brief introduction to mesonic and baryonic chiral perturbation theory and discuss a number of applications. We also consider the effective field theory including vector and axial-vector mesons.
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