ar X iv : h ep - p h / 98 05 43 0 v 1 2 2 M ay 1 99 8 Non - leptonic Hyperon Decays in Chiral Perturbation Theory

The non-leptonic hyperon decays are analyzed up to one-loop order including all counterterms in the framework of heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. We use the exchange of the spin2 decuplet resonances as an indication of which low-energy constants contribute significantly to these investigated processes . We choose four independent decay amplitudes that are not related by isospin relations in order to perform a fit for the pertinent low-energy constants and find a satisfactory fit both for sand p-waves. The chiral corrections to the lowest order forms for the s-waves are moderate whereas there are significant modifications of the p-wave amplitudes. Work supported in part by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and by the National Science Foundation email: [email protected] email: [email protected]