Kaon and Hyperon Form Factors in Kaon Electroproduction on the Nucleon

Abstract

The electromagnetic form factors of strange mesons and baryons are studied by means of kaon electroproduction on the nucleon. The response functions that are sensitive to the K0, Lambda, Sigma, and KK*\gamma transition form factors are systematically explored. The effects of these form factors on several response functions are discussed.

Comments: 10 pages, Latex2e, 12 postscript figures. Invited talk given at the International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics (HYP97), Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, October 13-18, 1997. To be published in Nucl. Phys. A