Hyperon-nucleon interaction and baryonic contact terms in SU(3) chiral effective field theory

In this paper we summarize results for baryonic contact terms derived within SU(3) chiral effective field theory. The four-baryon contact terms, necessary for the description of the hyperon-nucleon interaction, include SU(3) symmetric and explicit chiral symmetry breaking terms. They also include four-baryon contact terms involving pseudoscalar mesons, which become important for three-body forces. Furthermore we derive the leading order six-baryon contact terms in the non-relativistic limit and study their contribution to the ΛNN three-body contact interaction. These results could play an important role in studies of hypernuclei or hyperons in nuclear matter.