This book provides an authoritative, up to date, overview of the field of chiral dynamics, and also provides an excellent introduction to the field. The workshop is known for the interplay of theory and experiment and as a meeting place for most of the leading researchers in the field.

Chiral Dynamics 2006 is the 5th International Workshop which examines the implications and the development of an approximate low-energy solution to the QCD Lagrangian based upon Chiral Symmetry. Advances in theory and experiment are presented in 20 plenary session papers along with more than one-hundred papers, including summaries, from the three working groups. Sample Chapter(s). Part 1.1: Opening Remarks: Experimental Tests of Chiral Symmetry Breaking (311 KB). Contents: Some Recent Developments in Chiral Perturbation Theory (U-G Meiner); Recent Results from HAPPEX (R Michaels); Kaon Physics: Recent Experimental Progress (M Moulson); Recent KTeV Results on Radiative Kaon Decays (M C Ronquest); Partially Quenched CHPT Results to Two Loops (J Bijnens); Finite Volume Effects: Lattice Meets CHPT (G Schierholz); Quark Mass Dependence of LECs in the Two-Flavour Sector (M Schmid); Leading Chiral Logarithms from Unitarity, Analyticity and the Roy Equations (A Fuhrer); Power Counting in Nuclear Chiral Effective Field Theory (U van Kolck); The Challenge of Calculating Baryon-Baryon Scattering from Lattice QCD (S R Beane); Few-Body Studies at KVI (J G Messchendorp); Compton Scattering on HE-3 (D Choudhury); Lattice Discretization Errors in Chiral Effective Field Theories (B C Tiburzi); Uncertainty Bands for Chiral Extrapolations (B U Musch); and other papers. Readership: Graduate students and academics in nuclear physics.

Chiral dynamics provides a rigorous and model-independent methodology for making QCD predictions at the confinement scale. This helps particularly in the testing of the standard model. The workshop reported here was focused on theoretical predictions and the measurements of physical processes, analyzing carefully the phenomenology needed to bridge the gap between the two. Besides the lectures, this volume also contains summaries of the working groups on Â-Â-scattering, ÂN-interaction, photo/electro-pion-production, and on chiral anomaly. This book is a thorough review of the state of the art and it addresses researchers as well as graduate students.

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