This page provides information on Jefferson Lab Hall A experiments E98-108, "Electroproduction of Kaons up to Q2 = 3 (GeV/c)2 " and E94-107, "High Resolution 1p-Shell Hypernuclear Spectroscopy". The spokespersons on the two experiments are:
Experiment E98-108 measures kaon production cross sections, picking a specific reaction mechanism via a separation of response functions in the exclusive H(e,e'K+)Y reaction. This experiment will measure how kaons are electromagnetically produced -- meaning which production mechanisms contribute and to what extent.
Current knowledge is unsatisfactory with no systematic separation
of either the competing production mechanisms or the resulting
response functions. Multi-parameter models based on hadron dynamics
(QHD) have attempted to explain the existing data, but a wider
kinematical region has to be accessed in order to constrain the models
The longitudinal and transverse response functions will be
separated by detecting kaons along the direction of the virtual
photon, where only these terms contribute to the cross section. For
each The Kinematics for January 2001 are These experiments were or will be performed in Halls B and C at Jefferson Lab.
Dimitri Margaziotis handled
the shift signup for the E98-108 experiment. Please
visit his web page to see the old shift schedule.
The Run Coordinators for the experiment were:
Nilanga Liyanage January 10-15 Pete Markowitz January 25-31 Doug Higinbotham March 12-24 Mauro Iodice March 25-April 3 Joerg Reinhold April 3-12 Pete Markowitz April 13-??
The two proposals are available on the web in PDF format:
Meetings, Collaboration, Contacts
You can access the archives
for the experiment mailing list. To sign up, send mail to firstname.lastname@example.org with the body text
A good list of on-line
references is available which describes the theoretical efforts
to predict this behavior and past attempts to measure that same
Links to related JLab Experiments
E98-108 ran intertwined with E94-104. The link to E94-104 is:
Pete Markowitz - email@example.com
The Kinematics for January 2001 are
These experiments were or will be performed in Halls B and C at Jefferson Lab.