An introduction to chiral perturbation theory

Abstract

A brief introduction to the low-energy effective field theory of the standard model, chiral perturbation theory, is presented.

Comments: 40 pages, 16 figures, lectures held at the workshop "Physics and Astrophysics of Hadrons and Hadronic Matter", Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan, India, November 6-11, 2006