Kaon Electroproduction Studies at CEBAF
I am collaborating on a set of experiments to study kaon electroproduction
in Halls A and C at
CEBAF . The experiments will
isolate specific reaction channels via a separation of response functions
in the exclusive p(e,e'K+)Y reaction. Current experimental knowledge is
quite limited; by accessing the wide kinematical region available at
CEBAF the models and the
gKNY coupling constants can be better constrained.
The differential cross section for single kaon production by virtual photons
is given by
sig = sigT + epsilon*sigL + epsilon*sigTT*cos(2*phi) +
sqrt(2*epsilon*(epsilon+1))*sigLT*cos(phi)
where pji is the angle
Hypernuclear physics is expected to be a major part of the
CEBAF program.
the Lambda-hypernucleus, a nuclear system with strangeness S = -1 in which
in Hall A is
Hall A spectrometers