Baryon-baryon interactions from chiral effective field theory

Results from an ongoing study of baryon-baryon systems with strangeness S=−1 and −2 within chiral effective field theory are reported. The investigations are based on the scheme proposed by Weinberg which has been applied rather successfully to the nucleon-nucleon interaction in the past. Results for the hyperon-nucleon and hyperon-hyperon interactions obtained to leading order are reviewed. Specifically, the issue of extrapolating the binding energy of the H-dibaryon, extracted from recent lattice QCD simulations, to the physical point is addressed. Furthermore, first results for the hyperon-nucleon interaction at next-to-leading order are presented and discussed.