A brief introduction to chiral perturbation theory, the effective field theory of quantum chromodynamics at low energies, is given.
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Borasoy, B. (2008). Introduction to Chiral Perturbation Theory. In: Aliev, T., Pak, N.K., Serin, M. (eds) The Standard Model and Beyond. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73621-9_1
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