Effect of hyperon channels in low-energyK ? d scattering

Within the framework of a Faddeev formalism and an implicit hyperon channel approximation, we have calculatedK ^? d elastic, total, and reaction cross sections for incident kaon laboratory momenta up to 120 Mev/c. We have used as input two different (slightly modified) multichannelM matrix fits to low-energy¯KN scattering, each of which contains explicitly theπ Y channels, as well as a single channel representation of the¯KN interaction in which the hyperon channels appear only through their contributions to the imaginary parts of the¯KN scattering lengths. TheK ^? d cross sections obtained with the single channel¯KN input differ by only some 10% from those for which we used the multichannel¯KN input. TheK ^? d cross sections calculated using¯KN input parameters from each of the two separateM matrix fits differ across the entire momentum range investigated by 25–35%.