Abstract
We include the Roper excitation of the nucleon in a version of heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory recently developed for energies around the delta resonance. We find significant improvement in the P11 channel.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 72-82 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Nuclear Physics A |
| Volume | 870-871 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2011 |
Keywords
- Chiral perturbation theory
- Effective field theory
- The Roper resonance
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics