https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-00960-6
Regular Article –Theoretical Physics
Hyperon–nucleon interaction in chiral effective field theory at next-to-next-to-leading order
1
IAS-4, IKP-3 and JHCP, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52428, Jülich, Germany
2
CASA, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425, Jülich, Germany
3
HISKP and BCTP, Universität Bonn, 53115, Bonn, Germany
4
Tbilisi State University, 0186, Tbilisi, Georgia
Received:
12
January
2023
Accepted:
22
February
2023
Published online:
29
March
2023
A hyperon–nucleon potential for the strangeness 
sector (
, 
) up to third order in the chiral expansion is presented. SU(3) flavor symmetry is imposed for constructing the interaction, however, the explicit SU(3) symmetry breaking by the physical masses of the pseudoscalar mesons and in the leading-order contact terms is taken into account. A novel regularization scheme is employed which has already been successfully used in studies of the nucleon–nucleon interaction within chiral effective field theory up to high orders. An excellent description of the low-energy 
, 
and 
scattering data is achieved. New data from J-PARC on angular distributions for the channels are analyzed. Results for the hypertriton and 
hyper-nuclear separation energies are presented. An uncertainty estimate for the chiral expansion is performed for selected hyperon–nucleon observables.
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