University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Physics Department Faculty Publication Series Physics 1995 Chiral Perturbation Theory: a Primer BR Holstein University of Massachusetts Amherst,
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[email protected]. Chiral Perturbation Theory: a Primer Barry R. Holstein Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 and Institute for Nuclear Theory, NK-12 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Abstract Recently methods have been developed which exploit the chiral symmetry of QCD in order to make rigorous contact with low energy particle physics phenomenology. In these lectures we present a pedagogical introduction to these techniques. arXiv:hep-ph/9510344v1 19 Oct 1995 Research supported in part by the National Science Foundation and by the Department of Energy Contents 1 Introduction 3 1.1 QED........................................ 3 1.2 QuantumChromodynamics . 3 2 Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking 4 2.1 Symmetry..................................... 4 2.2 SymmetryBreaking ............................... 5 2.2.1 ExplicitSymmetryBreaking . 5 2.2.2 SpontaneousSymmetryBreaking . 6 2.2.3 Quantum Mechanical Symmetry Breaking . 6 3 Examples of Symmetries 8 3.1 ExplicitlyBrokenSymmetry.