Chiral dynamics: theory and experiment proceedings of the workshop [chiral dynamics: theory and experiment] held in Mainz, Germany, 1-5 September 1997

In this volume, experimentalists and theoreticians discuss which experiments and calculations are needed to make significant progress in the field and also how experiments and theoretical descriptions can be compared. The topics treated are the electromagnetic production of Goldstone bosons, pion-pion and pion-nucleon interactions, hadron polarizability and form factors. Introduction to chiral dynamics: Theory and experiment....Pages 2-11 Aspects of chiral dynamics....Pages 12-25 Light quark masses and condensates in QCD....Pages 26-45 Connections between lattice gauge theory and chiral perturbation theory....Pages 46-61 Nucleon-nucleon interaction and isospin violation....Pages 62-77 Valence quark model from lattice QCD....Pages 78-85 New developments in threshold pion photoproduction and electroproduction....Pages 88-105 Experiments on threshold pion photoproduction γp → pπ 0 ....Pages 106-113 Experiments on threshold pion electroproduction....Pages 114-123 Experiments on the N → Δ transition....Pages 124-137 The Δ (1232) as an effective degree of freedom in chiral perturbation theory....Pages 138-154 SU(3) chiral dynamics with coupled channels: Eta and kaon production....Pages 155-172 Status of three-flavor baryon chiral perturbation theory....Pages 173-188 Working group on electromagnetic production of goldstone bosons....Pages 189-212 Chiral perturbation theory and nucleon polarizabilities....Pages 214-227 Experiments on nucleon polarizabilities....Pages 228-246 Pion and kaon polarizabilities and radiative transitions....Pages 247-263 Working group on hadron polarizabilities and form factors....Pages 264-291 Goldstone boson production and decay....Pages 294-310 Working group on goldstone boson production and decay....Pages 311-334 Pion-pion and pion-nucleon interactions in chiral perturbation theory....Pages 336-351 Low energy experiments on π-π scattering....Pages 352-367 Working group on ππ and πN interactions....Pages 368-388 A discussion of which experiments and calculations are needed to make progress in the field of chiral dynamics and also how experiments and theoretical treatments can be compared. Topics treated include the electromagnetic production of Goldstone bosons, and hadron polarizability and form factors.