%0 Journal Article %T Chiral dynamics in the (gamma)over-right-arrowp -> p pi(0) reaction %A Hiller Blin, A. N. %A Ledwig, T. %A Vicente Vacas, M. J. %J Physics Letters B %D 2015 %V 747 %I Elsevier Science Bv %@ 0370-2693 %G English %F HillerBlin_etal2015 %O WOS:000358624800038 %O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2330), last updated on Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:48:32 +0000 %X We investigate the neutral pion photoproduction on the proton near threshold in covariant chiral perturbation theory with the explicit inclusion of A degrees of freedom. This channel is specially sensitive to chiral dynamics and the advent of very precise data from the Mainz microtron has shown the limits of the convergence of the chiral series for both the heavy baryon and the covariant approaches. We show that the inclusion of the Delta resonance substantially improves the convergence leading to a good agreement with data for a wider range of energies. %R 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.05.067 %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4083 %U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.05.067 %P 217-222