Note: Intro -- A Primer for Chiral Perturbation Theory -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Quantum Chromodynamics and Chiral Symmetry -- 1.1…Some Remarks on SU(3) -- 1.2…Local Symmetries and the QCD Lagrangian -- 1.2.1 The QED Lagrangian -- 1.2.2 The QCD Lagrangian -- 1.3…Accidental, Global Symmetries of the QCD Lagrangian -- 1.3.1 Light and Heavy Quarks -- 1.3.2 Left-Handed and Right-Handed Quark Fields -- 1.3.3 Noether Theorem -- 1.3.4 Global Symmetry Currents of the Light-Quark Sector -- 1.3.5 The Chiral Algebra -- 1.3.6 Chiral Symmetry Breaking by the Quark Masses -- 1.4…Green Functions and Ward Identities -- 1.4.1 Ward Identities Resulting from U(1) Invariance: An Example -- 1.4.2 Chiral Green Functions -- 1.4.3 The Algebra of Currents -- 1.4.4 QCD in the Presence of External Fields and the Generating Functional -- 1.4.5 PCAC in the Presence of an External Electromagnetic Field -- References -- 2 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Goldstone Theorem -- 2.1…Degenerate Ground States -- 2.2…Spontaneous Breakdown of a Global, Continuous, Non-Abelian Symmetry -- 2.3…Goldstone Theorem -- 2.4…Explicit Symmetry Breaking: A First Look -- References -- 3 Chiral Perturbation Theory for Mesons -- 3.1…Effective Field Theory -- 3.2…Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in QCD -- 3.2.1 The Hadron Spectrum -- 3.2.2 The Scalar Singlet Quark Condensate -- 3.3…Transformation Properties of the Goldstone Bosons -- 3.3.1 General Considerations -- 3.3.2 Application to QCD -- 3.4…Effective Lagrangian and Power-Counting Scheme -- 3.4.1 The Lowest-Order Effective Lagrangian -- 3.4.2 Symmetry Breaking by the Quark Masses -- 3.4.3 Construction of the Effective Lagrangian -- 3.4.4 Application at Lowest Order: Pion Decay -- 3.4.5 Application at Lowest Order: Pion-Pion Scattering -- 3.4.6 Application at Lowest Order: Compton Scattering -- 3.4.7 Dimensional Regularization. , 3.4.8 The Generation of Counter Terms -- 3.4.9 Power-Counting Scheme -- 3.5…Beyond Leading Order -- 3.5.1 The {{\fancyscript{O}}}(q^4) Lagrangian of Gasser and Leutwyler -- 3.5.2 Masses of the Goldstone Bosons at {{\fancyscript{O}}}(q^4) -- 3.5.3 The Effective Wess-Zumino-Witten Action -- 3.5.4 Chiral Perturbation Theory at {{\fancyscript{O}}}(q^6) -- References -- 4 Chiral Perturbation Theory for Baryons -- 4.1…Transformation Properties of the Fields -- 4.2…Baryonic Effective Lagrangian at Lowest Order -- 4.3…Applications at Lowest Order -- 4.3.1 Goldberger-Treiman Relation and the Axial-Vector Current Matrix Element -- 4.3.2 Pion-Nucleon Scattering -- 4.4…The Next-to-Leading-Order Lagrangian -- 4.5…Loop Diagrams: Renormalization and Power Counting -- 4.5.1 Counter Terms of the Baryonic ChPT Lagrangian -- 4.5.2 Power Counting -- 4.5.3 One-Loop Correction to the Nucleon Mass -- 4.6…Renormalization Schemes -- 4.6.1 Heavy-Baryon Approach -- 4.6.2 Infrared Regularization -- 4.6.3 Extended On-Mass-Shell Scheme -- 4.6.4 Dimensional Counting Analysis -- 4.7…The Delta Resonance -- 4.7.1 The Free Lagrangian of a Spin-3/2 System -- 4.7.2 Isospin -- 4.7.3 Leading-Order Lagrangian of the \Updelta(1232) Resonance -- 4.7.4 Consistent Interactions -- References -- 5 Applications and Outlook -- 5.1…Nucleon Mass and Sigma Term -- 5.1.1 Nucleon Mass to {\fancyscript{O}}(q^3) in the Heavy-Baryon Formalism -- 5.1.2 Nucleon Mass and Sigma Term at {\fancyscript{O}}(q^4) -- 5.1.3 Nucleon Mass Including the Delta Resonance -- 5.1.4 Nucleon Mass to {\fancyscript{O}}(q^6) -- 5.2…Nucleon Electromagnetic Form Factors to {\fancyscript{O}}(q^4) -- 5.3…Advanced Applications and Outlook -- 5.3.1 Chiral Extrapolationschiral extrapolation -- 5.3.2 Pion Photo- and Electroproductionpion production -- 5.3.3 Compton Scattering and PolarizabilitiesCompton scattering!nucleon. , 5.3.4 Virtual Compton ScatteringCompton scattering!virtual -- 5.3.5 Isospin-Symmetry Breakingisospin-symmetry breaking -- 5.3.6 Three-Flavor Calculations -- 5.3.7 Chiral Unitary Approacheschiral unitary approach -- 5.3.8 Complex-Mass Scheme -- 5.3.9 Chiral Effective Theory for Two- and Few-Nucleon Systemsfew-nucleon systems -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Solutions to Exercises -- Index.

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