Flavor SU(3) breaking effects in the chiral unitary model for meson-baryon scatterings

T. Hyodo, S. I. Nam, D. Jido, A. Hosaka

Published 2002-12-05, updated 2003-05-02Version 2

We examine flavor SU(3) breaking effects on meson-baryon scattering amplitudes in the chiral unitary model. It turns out that the SU(3) breaking, which appears in the leading quark mass term in the chiral expansion, can not explain the channel dependence of the subtraction parameters of the model, which are crucial to reproduce the observed scattering amplitudes and resonance properties.