Kaon photoproduction off nucleons in the chiral quark model

In this paper, we develop a general framework to study meson photoproduction off nucleons in the chiral quark model. The s- and u-channel resonance contributions are expressed in terms of the Chew-Goldberger-Low-Nambu (CGLN) amplitudes. The kaon-photoproduction processes, {γ}p{→}K⁺{Λ}, {γ}p{→}K⁺{{{Σ}}}⁰, and γp→{K}⁰Σ⁺, are calculated. The initial results show that the quark model provides a much improved description of the reaction mechanism for kaon photoproduction off the nucleon with less parameters than the traditional phenomenological approaches.