Chiral Symmetry in Nuclear Physics

Abstract

The role of chiral symmetry in nuclear physics is summarized. The topics treated are the chiral bag model for nucleon structure resulting from large $N_c$ QCD, the pion cloud in chiral perturbation theory for low-energy electroweak nuclear response functions, ``swelled hadrons" in nuclear matter, chiral symmetry restoration in terms of the Georgi vector limit and pseudo-Goldstone meson condensation in nuclear medium.

Comments: (based on talk given at International Symposium on Medium Energy Physics, August 22-26, 1994, Beijing, China), 15 pages (3 figures not included, supplied upon request), Latex, Saclay T95/100