Strangeness -2 two-baryon systems

Abstract

We derive strangeness -2 baryon-baryon interactions from a chiral constituent quark model including the full set of scalar mesons. The model has been tuned in the strangeness 0 and -1 two-baryon systems, providing parameter free predictions for the strangeness -2 case. We calculate elastic and inelastic $N\Xi$ and $\Lambda \Lambda$ cross sections which are consistent with the existing experimental data. We also calculate the two-body scattering lengths for the different spin-isospin channels.

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B