Chiral Dynamics: Theory and Experiment : Proceedings of the Workshop Held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, 25-29 July 1994 - Softcover

9783662139936: Chiral Dynamics: Theory and Experiment : Proceedings of the Workshop Held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, 25-29 July 1994

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Strong interactions at low energies.- Foundations and scope of chiral perturbation theory.- Aspects of nucleon chiral perturbation theory.- Estimates of low-energy parameters.- Thoughts on large N c QCD.- Pion observables and QCD.- Light hadron physics from the lattice.- Summary of ?-? scattering experiments.- Working group on ?? scattering.- Summary of the two pion threshold and chiral anomaly working group.- Low-energy photon-photon collisions to two-loop order.- Pion and sigma polarizabilities and radiative transitions.- Nucleon polarizabilities.- Pion (Kaon) and sigma polarizabilities.- Report of the working group on nucleon polarizabilities.- Tests of predictions from chiral perturbation theory for ?N scattering.- Pion-nucleon sigma term.- A meson-exchange model of pion-nucleon interaction.- ?N working group summary.- Measurement of the strong interaction shift and width of the 1S levels in pionic hydrogen and deuterium.- Is isospin symmetry violated in the pion-nucleon sector at threshold?.- Is f ?NN 2 =0.0755 ? A look at VPI FA93 and new Experimental Results.- Threshold pion photo- and electroproduction in chiral perturbation theory.- Pion-production experiments at NIKHEF.- Pion photoproduction and compton scattering at saskatoon (SAL).- Threshold photo/electro pion production - working group Summary.- Spin physics with polarized electrons: MIT-bates program.- Recent achievements and future plans at Frascati.- Experiments at the electron accelerator MAMI.- Conclusions.

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