Chiral Dynamics: Theory and Experiment [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Workshop Held in Mainz, Germany, 1–5 September 1997 / edited by Aron M. Bernstein, Dieter Drechsel, Thomas Walcher.

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.