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Baryon chiral perturbation theory

Discussion of baryon chiral perturbation theory, i.e of chiral perturbation theory with explicit effective (as opposed to or in addition to implicit skyrmionic) baryon fields included (see also Walecka model and quantum hadrodynamics):

Review:

• Ulf-G. Meissner, Chiral QCD: Baryon dynamics, in: At The Frontier of Particle Physics, pp. 417-505 (2001) (arxiv:hep-ph/0007092)

• Véronique Bernard, Chiral Perturbation Theory and Baryon Properties, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 60:82-160, 2008 (arXiv:0706.0312)

• Stefan Scherer, Baryon chiral perturbation theory, PoS CD09:075, 2009 (arXiv:0910.0331)

Original articles:

• Elizabeth Jenkins, Aneesh V. Manohar, Baryon chiral perturbation theory using a heavy fermion lagrangian, Physics Letters B Volume 255, Issue 4, 21 February 1991, Pages 558-562 (doi:10.1016/0370-2693(91)90266-S)

• Robert Baur, Joachim Kambor, Generalized Heavy Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory, Eur. Phys. J. C7:507-524, 1999 (arXiv:hep-ph/9803311)

Higher order terms:

• José Antonio Oller, Michela Verbeni, Joaquim Prades, Meson-baryon effective chiral Lagrangians to $\mathcal{O}(q^3)$, Journal of High Energy Physics, Volume 2006, JHEP09(2006) (arXiv:hep-ph/0608204, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/09/079)

• Matthias Frink, Ulf-G. Meissner, On the chiral effective meson-baryon Lagrangian at third order, Eur. Phys. J. A29:255-260, 2006 (arXiv:hep-ph/0609256)

• Jose Antonio Oller, Joaquim Prades, Michela Verbeni, Meson-Baryon Effective Chiral Lagrangians at $\mathcal{O}(q^3)$ Revisited (arXiv:hep-ph/0701096, spire:742291)

See also:

• Lisheng Geng, Recent developments in $SU(3)$ covariant baryon chiral perturbation theory, Front. Phys., 2013, 8(3): 328-348 (arXiv:1301.6815)