Skyrme model and nonleptonic hyperon decays - art. no. 097502

This Brief Report is an attempt to explain both s- and p-wave nonleptonic h yperon decays by means of the QCD enhanced effective weak Hamiltonian suppl emented by the SU(3) Skyrme model used to estimate nonperturbative matrix e lements. The model has only one free parameter, namely, the Skyrme charge e , which is fixed through the experimental values of the octet-decuplet mass splitting Delta and the axial vector coupling constant g(A). Such a dynami cal approach produces nonleptonic hyperon decay amplitudes that agree with experimental data reasonably well.