Status of the hyperon-nucleon interaction in chiral effective field theory.

The Jülich-Bonn group aims at an extensive study of the baryonbaryon (BB) interaction involving strange baryons (Λ, Σ, Ξ) within SU(3) chiral effective field theory. An overview of achievements and new developments over the past few years is provided. The topics covered are: 1) Derivation of the leading charge-symmetry breaking (CSB) interaction for the ΛN system and its application in a study of CSB effects in A=4 Λ-hypernuclei. 2) Updated results for the ΞN interaction at NLO and predictions for Ξ−p correlation functions. 3) Extension of the ΛN-ΣN interaction to next-to-next-to-leading order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]