Peripheral orbit model II Application to p+p to K/sup -/+K/sup +/ reaction

For pt.I see abstr. A55650 of 1974. The peripheral orbit model is applied to the pp to K/sup -/K/sup +/ reaction for 0.8<or=p/sub lab /<or=5 GeV/c and shown to reproduce satisfactorily the rapid variation of the angular distribution with energy. Thus, the annihilation of pp into K/sup -/K/sup +/ is found to be peripheral. The model reproduces the differential cross-sections near Re alpha =3 especially well. This suggests a possibility that there is a boson resonance with J/sup P/=3 /sup -/ and mass approximately=2.1 GeV. (12 refs).