Chiral dynamics: theory and experiment III : Jefferson Laboratory, USA, July 17-22, 2000

This book provides an authoritative, up to date, overview of the field of chiral dynamics, and also provides an excellent introduction to the field.

The workshop is known for the interplay of theory and experiment and as a meeting place for most of the leading researchers in the field.Contents: Theoretical Chiral Dynamics (H Leutwyler)Experimental Chiral Dynamics (A Bernstein)CEBAF at Jefferson Lab, an Overview (B Mecking)Lorentz Invariant Baryon CHPT (T Becher)Sigma-Terms (J Gasser & M Sainio)Theory of Hadronic Atoms (A Rusetsky)Effective Field Theory in Nuclear Physics (M Savage)Nucleon Polarizabilities (B Holstein)Chiral Symmetry in Dense Hadronic Matter (W Weise)The Gerasimov–Drell–Hearn Sum Rule (D Drechsel)and other papersReadership: Researchers, academics and graduate students in nuclear and high energy physics.