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Kaon photo- and electroproduction in all six isospin channels are investigated by means of an isobaric model. It is found that existing models can only partially describe the current experimental data. Moreover, the extracted coupling…
Nucleon resonances are investigated through the electromagnetic production of K-mesons. We study the kaon photoproduction process at tree-level and compare to a recently developed unitary K-matrix approach. Employing hadronic form factors…
We have analyzed the experimental data on K+Lambda photoproduction by using a multipole approach. In this analysis we use the background amplitudes constructed from appropriate Feynman diagrams in a gauge-invariant and crossing-symmetric…
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…
Photo- and electroproduction of $K\Sigma$ have been investigated near their production thresholds by using an effective Lagrangian approach. For this purpose, the background amplitude is constructed from suitable Feynman diagrams, whereas…
Isobar models for the electromagnetic production of kaons are discussed with emphasis on the K^+ photoproduction at very small kaon angles and K^0 photoproduction on deuteron. Distorted-wave impuls approximation calculations of the cross…
The new experimental data of kaon photoproduction on the nucleon, gamma p -> K+ Lambda, have been analyzed by means of a multipoles model. Different from the previous models, in this analysis the resonance decay widths are constrained to…
The electromagnetic kaon production amplitudes associated to Lambda/Sigma hyperons can be described by phenomenological models, most notably by isobar approaches. Experimental data on kaon production have been collected at ELSA, SPring8,…
The formation and excitation of hypernuclei through kaon photoproduction is reviewed. Basic features of the production process are emphasized. The possibility of extracting new information on hypernuclear structure and on the wave function…
The electroproduction of kaon on proton has been studied using two covariant isobar models. The models incorporate propagators and vertex factors developed in our previous works. In total, the current study includes 26 nucleon resonances…
The J\"ulich-Bonn dynamical coupled-channel approach is extended to include $K\Sigma$ photoproduction off the proton. Differential cross section and (double) polarization data for $K^+\Sigma^0$ and $K^0\Sigma^+$ are analysed simultaneously…
The electroproduction of kaons on the nucleon is shown to be an ideal tool to extract electromagnetic form factors of strange mesons and hyperons. Longitudinal n(e,e'K0)Lambda cross sections are found to be sensitive to the K0 form factor,…
The particle production of Kaon and $\Lambda$ are studied in nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energy based on a chemical equilibrium blast-wave model. The transverse momentum spectra of Kaon and $\Lambda$ at the kinetic freeze-out…
The present status of kaon photo- and electroproduction on the nucleon is briefly reviewed. Some current important issues in this field are discussed.
We have developed a covariant isobar model to phenomenologically explain the four possible isospin channels of $K\Sigma$ photoproduction. To obtain a consistent reaction amplitude, which is free from the lower-spin background problem, we…
We study multi-photon effects in quantum electrodynamics in lepton photo-production on heavy nuclei and nuclear medium at high energies. We are interested in energy, charge density and nuclear geometry dependence of the cross sections. We…
Kaon photo- and electroproduction off the nucleon is investigated in the framework of an isobaric model up to energies of about 1 GeV above threshold for all six isospin channels. The hadronic coupling constants in the model are determined…
Exploiting the isobar model, kaon photo- and electroproduction on the proton in the resonance region comes under scrutiny. An upgrade of our previous model, comprising higher-spin nucleon and hyperon exchanges in the consistent formalism,…
A coupled channels analysis, based on the K-matrix approach, is presented for photo-induced kaon production. It is shown that channel coupling effects are large and should not be ignored. The importance of contact terms in the analysis,…
Recently we presented a successful strategy to extract the position of the two $\Lambda(1405)$ poles from experimental photoproduction data on the $\gamma p \to K^+ \pi^0 \Sigma^0 $ reaction at Jefferson Lab. Following a similar strategy,…