Chiral perturbation theory: brief introduction

A brief introduction to chiral perturbation theory

Introduction to Chiral Perturbation Theory

This article provides a pedagogical introduction to the basic concepts of chiral perturbation theory and is designed as a text for a two-semester course on that topic. Chapter 1 serves as a general introduction to the empirical and theoretical foundations which led to the development of chiral perturbation theory. Chapter 2 deals with QCD and its global symmetries in the chiral limit; the conce...

Introduction to Chiral Perturbation Theory

A brief introduction to chiral perturbation theory, the effective field theory of quantum chromodynamics at low energies, is given.

An introduction to chiral perturbation theory

A brief introduction to the low-energy effective field theory of the standard model, chiral perturbation theory, is presented.

Chiral perturbation theory: a basic introduction

Chiral perturbation theory is a very general expansion method which can be applied to any dynamical system which has continuous global symmetries and in which the ground state breaks some of these spontaneously. In these lectures we explain at a basic level and in detail how such symmetries are identified in the case of the QCD Lagrangian and describe the steps which are involved in practice in...