Volker Koch
Published 1997-06-26, updated 1997-06-27Version 2
This article is an attempt to a pedagogical introduction and review into the elementary concepts of chiral symmetry in nuclear physics. Effective chiral models such as the linear and nonlinear sigma model will be discussed as well as the essential ideas of chiral perturbation theory. Some applications to the physics of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions will be presented.
Comments: 53 pages, 11 figures uses epsf style, Review, to appear in Int. Jou. Mod. Phys. E (some references added)
Journal: Int.J.Mod.Phys. E6 (1997) 203-250
Introduction to Chiral Symmetry
Chiral symmetry and quantum hadro-dynamics
Precision extraction of a_nn from pi- d --> n n gamma using chiral perturbation theory
