RT Journal Article T1 Improved unitarized heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory for π N scattering to fourth order A1 Gómez Nicola, Ángel A1 Nieves, J. A1 Peláez Sagredo, José Ramón A1 Ruiz Arriola, E. AB We extend our previous analysis of the unitarized pion-nucleon scattering amplitude including up to fourth order terms in heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. We pay special attention to the stability of the generated Delta(1232) resonance, the convergence problems, and the power counting of the chiral parameters. PB American Physical Society SN 0556-2821 YR 2004 FD 2004-03-01 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51400 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51400 LA spa NO © 2004 The American Physical Society.This work was supported in part by funds provided by the Spanish DGI with Grant Nos. FM2002-03218, BFM2000- 1326 and BFM2002-01003; CICYT Grant No. FPA2000- 0956; Junta de Andalucía Grant No. FQM-225 and EURIDICE with contract number HPRN-CT-2002-00311. NO Spanish DGI NO CICYT NO Junta de Andalucía NO EURIDICE DS Docta Complutense RD 9 abr 2025