Hyperon electroproduction in a crossing and duality constrained model

Using our previously developed crossing and duality consistent model for kaon photoproduction and radiative capture, we investigate the kaon electroproduction processes p(e,e’K⁺)Y for Y=Λ, Σ⁰, and Λ(1405). Because there is no electroproduction data near threshold, consistency requires extending the energy range of our photoproduction model parametrization from an upper bound of E_γ^lab=1.4 to 2.2 GeV. We find that baryon resonances with spin greater than 1/2 are necessary to describe the higher energy photoproduction data (1.4≤E_γ^lab≤2.2 GeV). We also extend our use of duality by representing these higher-spin s- and u-channel baryon resonances with the low-lying t-channel vector, K^*(890), and pseudovector, K₁(1270), mesons. Using this extended crossing and duality consistent model, we obtain reasonable agreement with the data for both photoproduction and electroproduction processes.