The chiral structure of the neutron as revealed in electron and photon scattering

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It is a consequence of QCD's spontaneously broken chiral symmetry that the response of the neutron to long wavelength probes will be driven by excitation of its pion cloud.

• In this article I discuss manifestations of this in electromagnetic form factors and Compton scattering.
• Particular attention is given to the interplay between this physics and shorter-distance components of the neutron's electromagnetic structure.