Kaon electroproduction and separation of virtual photoproduction cross section terms

The study of nuclear systems with strangeness is one of the forefront research areas in intermediate energy nuclear physics. The electroproduction of kaons and the associated hypernucleons is one way to study this physics. The combination of the continuous wave, high energy CEBAF electron beam and the magnetic spectrometer for particle detection in Hall C at CEBAF will allow investigations of kaon electroproduction to an extent never before achieved. This paper reports on an experimental program which can be carried out in Hall C to separate the various terms in kaon electroproduction