Chiral Dynamics 2006: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, Theory and Experiment Durham/Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 18-22 September 2006

by Ahmed, Mohammad W.

• ISBN13: 9789812705662
• ISBN10: 981270566X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

Chiral Dynamics 2006 consists the most recent developments in the field of chiral symmetry and dynamics. Advances in theory and updates on experimental programs are presented in 20 papers in the plenary program and more than one hundred invited and contributed talks from the working groups are included in another section.

Table of Contents

Plenary Session	p. 1
Opening Remarks: Experimental Tests of Chiral Symmetry Breaking	p. 3
[pi][pi] Scattering	p. 17
Chiral Effective Field Theory in the [Delta]-resonance region	p. 30
Some Recent Developments in Chiral Perturbation Theory	p. 43
Chiral Extrapolation and Nucleon Structure from the Lattice	p. 56
Recent Results from HAPPEX	p. 65
Chiral Symmetries and Low Energy Searches for New Physics	p. 77
Kaon Physics: Recent Experimental Progress	p. 89
Status of the Cabibbo Angle	p. 104
Lattice QCD and Nucleon Spin Structure	p. 116
Spin Sum Rules and Polarizabilities: Results from Jefferson Lab	p. 126
Compton Scattering and Nucleon Polarisabilities	p. 138
Virtual Compton scattering at MIT-bates	p. 148
Physics Results from the BLAST Detector at the BATES Accelerator	p. 158
The [pi]NN system - recent progress	p. 170
Application of Chiral Nuclear Forces to Light Nuclei	p. 182
New Results on Few-Body Experiments at Low Energy	p. 194
Few-Body Lattice Calculations	p. 207
Research Opportunities at the Upgraded HI[gamma]S Facility	p. 219
Goldstone Boson Dynamics	p. 231
Working Group Summary: Golstone Boson Dynamics	p. 233
Recent results on radiative Kaon decays from NA48 and NA48/2	p. 246
Cusps in K [approaches] 3[pi] Decays	p. 248
Recent KTeV Results on Radiative Kaon Decays	p. 250
The [pi][pi] Scattering Amplitude	p. 252
Determination of the Regge Parameters in the [pi][pi] Scattering Amplitude	p. 254
e[superscript +]e[superscript -] Hadronic Cross Section Measurement at DA[phi]NE with the KLOE Detector	p. 256
Measurement of the form factors of e[superscript +]e[superscript -] [approaches] 2([pi][superscript +][pi][superscript -]), pp and the resonant parameters of the heavy charmonia at BES	p. 259
Measurement of e[superscript +]e[superscript -] Multihadronic Cross Sections Below 4.5 GeV with BABAR	p. 261
The Pion Vector Form-Factor and (g - 2)[subscript][mu]	p. 265
Partially Quenched CHPT Results to Two Loops	p. 268
Pion-Pion Scattering with Mixed Action Lattice QCD	p. 270
Meson Systems with Ginsparg-Wilson Valence Quarks	p. 272
Low Energy Constants from the MILC Collaboration	p. 275
Finite Volume Effects: Lattice Meets CHPT	p. 277
Lattice QCD simulations with two light dynamical (Wilson) quarks	p. 279
Do we understand the low-energy constant L[subscript 8]	p. 280
Quark mass dependence of LECs in the two-flavour sector	p. 282
Progress Report on the [pi][superscript 0] Lifetime Experiment (PRIMEX) at JLab	p. 284
Determination of Charged Pion Polarizabilities	p. 286
Proposed Measurements of Electroproduction of [pi][superscript 0] near Threshold using a Large Acceptance Spectrometer	p. 288
The [kappa] Meson in [pi]K Scattering	p. 291
Strangeness - 1 Meson-Baryon Scattering in S-wave	p. 293
Results on light mesons decays and Dynamics at KLOE	p. 295
Studies of Decays of [eta] and [eta]' Mesons with WASA Detector	p. 297
Heavy Quark-Diquark Symmetry and [chi]PT for Doubly Heavy Baryons	p. 299
HHChPT Applied to the Charmed-Strange Parity Partners	p. 302
Study of Pion Structure Through Precise Measurements of the [pi][superscript +] [approaches] e[superscript +][nu][gamma] Decay	p. 304
Exceptional and non-exceptional contributions to the radiative [pi] decay	p. 306
Leading chiral logarithms from unitarity, analyticity and the Roy equations	p. 308
All orders symmetric subtraction of the nonlinear sigma model in D[actual symbol not reproducible]4	p. 310
Chiral Dynamics in Few-Nucleon Systems	p. 313
Working Group Summary: Chiral Dynamics in Few-Nucleon Systems	p. 315
Power Counting in Nuclear Chiral Effective Field Theory	p. 330
On the Consistency of Weinberg's Power Counting	p. 332
Renormalization of Singular Potentials and Power Counting	p. 334
The Challenge of Calculating Baryon-Baryon Scattering from Lattice QCD	p. 337
Precise Absolute np Scattering Cross Section and the Charged [pi] NN Coupling Constant	p. 339
Probing Hadronic Parity Violation Using Few Nucleon Systems	p. 342
Extracting the Neutron-Neutron Scattering Length from Neutron-Deuteron Breakup	p. 344
Extraction of a[subscript nn] from [pi][superscript -]d [approaches] nn[gamma]	p. 346
The Three- and Four-Body System with Large Scattering Length	p. 348
3N and 4N Systems and the A[subscript y] Puzzle	p. 350
Recent Progress in Nuclear Lattice Simulations with Effective Field Theory	p. 353
Few-Body Studies at KVI	p. 355
Results of Three Nucleon Experiments from RIKEN	p. 357
A New Opportunity to Measure the Total Photoabsorption Cross Section of Helium	p. 359
Three-Body Photodisintegration of [superscript 3]He with Double Polarizations	p. 363
Large two-pion-exchange contributions to the pp [approaches] pp[pi][superscript 0] reaction	p. 365
Towards a Systematic Theory of Nuclear Forces	p. 367
Ab Initio Calculations of Electromagnetic Reactions in Light Nuclei	p. 369
Electron Scattering from a Polarized Deuterium Target at BLAST	p. 371
Neutron-Neutron Scattering Length From the Reaction [gamma]d [approaches] [pi][superscript +]nn	p. 374
Renormalization Group Analysis of Nuclear Current Operators	p. 376
Recent Results and Future Plans at MAX-LAB	p. 378
Nucleon Polarizabilities from Deuteron Compton Scattering, and Its Lessons for Chiral Power Counting	p. 380
Compton Scattering on HE-3	p. 382
Hadron Structure and Meson-Baryon Interactions	p. 385
Summary of the Working Group on Hadron Structure and Meson-Baryon Interactions	p. 387
Finite Volume Effects: Lattice Meets CHPT	p. 396
Lattice Discretization Errors in Chiral Effective Field Theories	p. 398
SU(3)-breaking effects in hyperon semileptonic decays from lattice QCD	p. 400
Uncertainty Bands for Chiral Extrapolations	p. 402
Update of the Nucleon Electromagnetic Form Factors	p. 404
N and N to [Delta] Transition Form Factors From Lattice QCD	p. 406
The [gamma][superscript *]N [approaches] [Delta] Transition at Low Q[superscript 2] and the Pionic Contribution	p. 409
Strange Quark CoNtributions to the Form Factors of the Nucleon	p. 411
Dynamical Polarizabilities of the Nucleon	p. 413
Hadron magnetic moments and polarizabilities in lattice QCD	p. 415
Spin-dependent Compton scattering from [superscript 3]He and the neutron spin polarizabilities	p. 417
Chiral Dynamics from Dyson-Schwinger Equations	p. 420
Radiative neutron [beta]-decay in effective field theory	p. 423
Comparison between different renormalization schemes for covariant BChPT	p. 426
Non-Perturbative Study of the Light Pseudoscalar Masses in Chiral Dynamics	p. 429
Masses and Widths of Hadrons in Nuclear Matter	p. 431
Chiral Effective Field Theory at Finite Density	p. 433
The K-Nuclear Interaction: A Search For Deeply Bound K- Nuclear Clusters	p. 436
Moments of GPDs from Lattice QCD	p. 438
Generalized Parton Distributions in Effective Field Theory	p. 441
Near-Threshold Pion Production: Experimental Update	p. 443
Pion Photoproduction Near Threshold Theory Update	p. 446
Author Index	p. 455
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