Advances in Nuclear Physics. Vol.27

1: Fifty Years of the Shell Model - The Quest for the Effective Interaction; I. Talmi. 1. Introduction. 2. The (Re)Emergence of the Shell Model. 3. Early Calculations. 4. Effective Interactions from Experimental Nuclear Energies. 5. Some Schematic Interactions and Applications. 6. Seniority and Generalized Seniority in Semi-Magic Nuclei. 7. Large-Scale Shell Model Calculations. 8. What Have We Learned? Where Do We Stand? References. 2: Introduction to Chiral Perturbation Theory; S. Scherer. 1. Introduction. 2. QCD and Chiral Symmetry. 3. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Goldstone Theorem. 4. Chiral Perturbation Theory for Mesons. 5. Chiral Perturbation Theory for Baryons. 6. Summary and Concluding Remarks. Appendix: A.1. Green Functions and Ward Identities. A.2. Dimensional Regularization: Basics. A.3. Loop Integrals. A.4. Different Forms of L 4 in SU(2) x SU(2). References. Index.