Chiral Dynamics: Theory and Experiment: Proceedings of the Workshop Held in Mainz, Germany, 15, September 1997: 513 (Lecture Notes in Physics, 513)

to chiral dynamics: Theory and experiment.- Aspects of chiral dynamics.- Light quark masses and condensates in QCD.- Connections between lattice gauge theory and chiral perturbation theory.- Nucleon-nucleon interaction and isospin violation.- Valence quark model from lattice QCD.- New developments in threshold pion photoproduction and electroproduction.- Experiments on threshold pion photoproduction ?p ? p? 0.- Experiments on threshold pion electroproduction.- Experiments on the N ? ? transition.- The ?(1232) as an effective degree of freedom in chiral perturbation theory.- SU(3) chiral dynamics with coupled channels: Eta and kaon production.- Status of three-flavor baryon chiral perturbation theory.- Working group on electromagnetic production of goldstone bosons.- Chiral perturbation theory and nucleon polarizabilities.- Experiments on nucleon polarizabilities.- Pion and kaon polarizabilities and radiative transitions.- Working group on hadron polarizabilities and form factors.- Goldstone boson production and decay.- Working group on goldstone boson production and decay.- Pion-pion and pion-nucleon interactions in chiral perturbation theory.- Low energy experiments on ?-? scattering.- Working group on ?? and ?N interactions.