We report the use of carbon-proton heteronuclear selective refocusing 2D NMR experiments dedicated to the spectral analysis of enantiomers dissolved in weakly ordering chiral liquid crystalline solvents. The method permits the extraction of carbon-proton residual dipolar couplings for each enantiomer from a complex or unresolved proton-coupled 13C spectral patterns. Illustrative examples are an...

Polarized beam −→γ p Compton scattering provides a theoretically clean way to extract the isovector parity violating pion-nucleon coupling constant h (1) πNN . This channel is more tractable experimentally than the recently proposed extraction of h (1) πNN from the Bedaque-Savage process — polarized target γ −→p compton scattering. The leading parity violating effect is calculated using Heavy B...

The determination of low-energy constants from data is an important component of most effective field theory programs, including that of chiral perturbation theory. We propose a novel method based on Bayesian probability theory which allows us to address several shortcomings of the standard approach to parameter extraction. Using a toy-model we argue that the Bayesian approach is ideally suited...

We evaluate the isospin breaking corrections to the scattering amplitude πK → πK at threshold in the framework of chiral perturbation theory. This channel is of particular interest for the strong 2S− 2P energy level shift in pion–kaon bound states. While a prediction of this level shift is hampered by a large uncertainty in the isoscalar scattering length, we find only a moderate uncertainty of...

We discuss the techniques to extract the electromagnetic ∆ form factors in Lattice QCD. We evaluate these form factors using dynamical fermions with smallest pion mass of about 350 MeV. We pay particular attention to the extraction of the electric quadrupole form factor that signals a deformation of the ∆. The magnetic moment of the ∆ is extrapolated using a chiral effective field theory. Using...

Chiral perturbation theory is the efiective fleld theory of the strong interactions at low energies. We will give a short introduction to chiral perturbation theory for mesons and will discuss, as an example, the electromagnetic polarizabilities of the pion. These have recently been extracted from an experiment on radiative π photoproduction from the proton (γp → γπn) at the Mainz Microtron MAM...

In the search for new materials and concepts in materials science, metallo-organic hybrids are attractive candidates; they can combine the rich diversity of organic molecules with the advantages of metals. Transition metals such as palladium are widely applied in catalysis, and small organic molecules such as those in the cinchona alkaloid family can control the stereochemistry of a number of o...

We introduce transverse densities in the study of parton dynamics in the proton’s peripheral region. We calculate these densities using chiral perturbation theory (χPT) and parametrize the long distance structure of the nucleon in a model independent framework in which we identify chiral (b ∼ O(1/Mπ)) and molecular (b ∼ O(M 2 N/(M 3 π))) parametrical regions. Through the light cone formulation ...