Recent results of the pion-nucleon scattering and the widths of the delta and Roper resonances in BChPT

Recent calculations of the pion-nucleon scattering in covariant baryon chiral perturbation theory with explicit delta resonances are presented. Two-loop results of the widths of the Δ and Roper resonances are discussed in the framework of an effective field theory with nucleons, pions and the Roper and delta resonances as dynamical degrees of freedom.