A primer for chiral perturbation theory.
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: A primer for chiral perturbation theory.
zbMATH Open document ID: 1232.81004
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19254-8
author: S. Scherer
author: Matthias R. Schindler
published in: Lecture Notes in Physics
publication date: 2011-03-18T00:00:00Z
review text: The book under review gives a very good introduction into chiral perturbation theory. Chiral perturbation theory is an effective theory approximating the theory of strong interactions, quantum chromodynamics, at scales well below typical hadron masses. The book starts from quantum chromodynamics and carefully explains spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Goldstone theorem. With these prerequisites the standard chiral perturbation theory is then developed. The two last chapters of the book offer more advanced topics and treat chiral perturbation theory for baryons and applications thereof. The book is very pedagogical and can read by students and researchers interested in the topic. A basic course in quantum field theory will suffice to follow the arguments of the book. The book does not only contain many exercises, but also the solutions to them. After reading and working through the book one will have no problems in understanding the current research topics in chiral perturbation theory.
reviewed by: Stefan Weinzierl
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81-02
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81V05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81V35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81R40
zbMATH DE Number: 5868049
zbMATH Keywords: chiral perturbation theory
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19254-8
OpenAlex ID: W644955929
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5868049