Basics of Resonance Chiral Theory

Abstract

We review the main components that have to be considered, within Resonance Chiral Theory, in the study of processes whose dynamics is dominated by hadron resonances. We show its application in the study of the tau -> (3 pion) nu_tau decay.

Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of the Chiral10 International Workshop on Chiral Symmetry in Hadrons and Nuclei, Valencia (21st -24th June, 2010)