Detailed Analysis of the Chiral Unitary Model for Meson-Baryon Scattering with Flavor SU(3) Breaking Effects

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

Published 2003-05-06, updated 2004-06-23Version 3

We study s-wave meson-baryon scattering using the chiral unitary model. We consider $1/2^{-}$ baryon resonances as quasibound states of the low lying mesons ($\pi,K,\eta$) and baryons ($N,\Lambda,\Sigma,\Xi$). In previous works, the subtraction constants which appear in loop integrals were found to largely depend on the channels, and it was necessary to fit these constants to reproduce the data. In order to extend this model to all channels with fewer parameters, we introduce flavor SU(3) breaking interactions in the framework of chiral perturbation theory. It is found, however, that the observed SU(3) breaking in meson-baryon scattering cannot be explained by the present SU(3) breaking interactions. The role and importance of the subtraction constants in the present framework are discussed.