Resonance model study on $K^+ N \rightarrow K N \eta$ near threshold

Abstract

By using resonance model, we investigate $K^+ N \rightarrow K N \eta$ reactions with the assumption that these reactions are dominated by the excitation of $N^*(1535)$ near threshold. It is found that the hyperon and $\rho$ exchange diagrams give the most important contributions to these reactions. Thus these reactions may be a good place to study the coupling of $N^*(1535)$ with $K\Lambda$, $K\Sigma$ and $N\rho$ channels. We demonstrate that the angular distributions of final particles provide useful information about the different mechanisms of the $N^*(1535)$ excitations, which could be useful for future experimental analysis on these reactions.