Heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory with light deltas

1997/12/31 by Thomas R. Hemmert, Thomas R Hemmert, Barry R. Holstein +2 · 313 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Baryon #Chiral perturbation theory #Effective field theory #Formalism (music) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nucleon #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Perturbation (astronomy) #Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/24/10/003

published in Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics 24(10), 1831-1859 (IOP Publishing) · 47 page standard latex file with typos corrected

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Abstract

We demonstrate how heavy mass methods, previously applied to chiral perturbation theory calculations involving the interactions of nucleons and pions, can be generalized to include interactions with the (1232) in a systematic formalism which we call the `small-scale expansion'.

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