Missing Resonances in Kaon Photoproduction on the Nucleon

Abstract

New kaon photoproduction data on a proton, gamma + p --> K+ + Lambda, are analyzed using a multipole approach. The background terms are given in terms of gauge invariant, crossing symmetric, Born diagrams with hadronic form factors, while the resonances are parameterized using Breit-Wigner forms. Preliminary results suggest a number of new resonances, as predicted by many quark model studies. A comparison between the extracted multipoles and those obtained from KAON-MAID is presented.

10 pages, 6 figures, invited talk at the International Symposium on Electrophotoproduction of Strangeness on Nucleons and Nuclei (SENDAI 03), Sendai, Japan, 16-18 Jun 2003