Latest studies on the reaction e+ e- --> K + K- gamma

Abstract

Recent theoretical studies of the e+ e- --> K + K- gamma process are described. Three main reaction mechanisms are considered: the initial state radiation, the final state radiation and the strong interaction between the outgoing K+ K- mesons. The K+ K- effective mass distributions are derived for three different models which in past have been used for a description of the e+ e- --> pi+ pi- gamma data. Also the numerical results for the angular photon and kaon distributions are presented. A new model of the e+ e- --> M_1 M_2 gamma reactions is outlined which can serve for multichannel analyses of the radiative processes with a production of two pseudoscalar mesons M_1 and M_2.