Kaon-nucleon scattering in an extended cloudy bag model

Abstract We describe low-energy kaon-nucleon scattering by generalizing the cloudy bag model (CBM) to SU(3) chiral symmetry. We restrict our attention to I = 0, s-wave scattering. We obtain a reasonable fit to both the Σπ cross section in the region of the Λ ∗ (1405) and low-energy kaon-nucleon scattering.