Donoghue, JFHolstein, BRBorasoy, B2024-04-262024-04-261999https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/40603This is a pre-published version which is collected from arXiv. The published version is at http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v59/i3/e036002The use of SU(3) chiral perturbation theory in the analysis of low energy meson-baryon interactions is discussed. It is emphasized that short distance effects, arising from propagation of Goldstone bosons over distances smaller than a typical hadronic size, are modeldependent and can lead to a lack of convergence in the SU(3) chiral expansion if they are included in loop diagrams. In this paper we demonstrate how to remove such effects in a chirally consistent fashion by use of a cutoff and demonstrate that such removal ameliorates problems which have arisen in previous calculations due to large loop effects.Physical Sciences and Mathematicsarticle