2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/81507Based on a counting scheme for the application of chiral perturbation theory to pion production in NN collisions p-wave production is studied. It is demonstrated that, contrary to the s-wave production where loops enter at too low an order to allow the scheme predictive power, there are certain p-wave observables where parameter free predictions are possible. These predictions are consistent with experimental data. We show that the investigation of charged pion production yields a constraint on a contribution to the three-nucleon force with a spin-isospin structure that could resolve the $A_y$ puzzle in $nd$ scattering.4 pages, 3 figures, Contribution to "MESON2000", Workshop on production, properties and interaction of mesons, Cracow, Poland, 19-23 May 2000Nuclear Theorytext