A Brief Introduction to Chiral Perturbation Theory

TL;DR

This paper provides an introductory overview of chiral perturbation theory, explaining its basis as an effective field theory and exploring its applications in mesonic interactions and pion-nucleon sectors.

Contribution

It offers a concise introduction to chiral perturbation theory, highlighting its theoretical foundations and practical applications in low-energy hadronic physics.

Findings

Effective field theory framework for $ ext{chi}$pt explained

Applications in mesonic interactions discussed

Analysis of $ ext{chi}$pt$ in $ ext{pi}$N sector included

Abstract

A brief introduction to the subject of chiral perturbation theory ($\chi$pt) is presented, including a discussion of effective field theory and applications of $\chi$pt in the arena of purely mesonic interactions as well as in the $\pi N$ sector.