K*+ photoproduction at CLAS
meeting: Baryons 2010, speaker: Ken Hicks

The photoproduction of K* mesons at CLAS has been measured with high statistics 
for the first time.  Cross sections for final states to both Lambda and Sigma 
baryons are now stable, and total cross sections from threshold up to a maximum 
beam energy of 3.8 GeV have been determined via fits to the angular distributions. 
Although no nucleon resonance structures are evident in the data, the total 
cross sections show a peak near W=2.1 GeV, where some four-star nucleon resonances 
are listed by the Particle Data Group.  A full analysis using theoretical models 
will likely be necessary to understand the relative role of baryon resonances 
in the photoproduction of the K* Lambda and K* Sigma final states.