We give a review of recent progress on the application of the relativistic chiral SU (3) Lagrangian to meson-baryon scattering. It is shown that a combined chi-ral and 1/N c expansion of the Bethe-Salpeter interaction kernel leads to a good description of the kaon-nucleon, antikaon-nucleon and pion-nucleon scattering data typically up to laboratory momenta of p lab ≃ 500 MeV. We solve the covar...

Inclusive electron scattering from nuclei at low momentum transfer (corresponding to x ≥ 1) and moderate Q is dominated by quasifree scattering from nucleons. In the impulse approximation, the cross section can be directly connected to the nucleon momentum distribution via the scaling function F (y). The breakdown of the y-scaling assumptions in certain kinematic regions have prevented extracti...