Two-photon production of KS⁰K^±π^∓ states has been studied by the TPC/Two-Gamma experiment at the SLAC storage ring PEP. A resonance of mass 1.42 GeV was seen when one of the photons was quite virtual but not when both photons were nearly real. Production of a spin-1 meson, which cannot be made by two real photons, would fit these observations. The Q² dependence of the data in the resonance region agrees with this spin assignment and is incompatible with a spin-0 hypothesis. The mass and width of the resonance are similar to those of the E meson, which has been assigned JP=0^- and JP=1⁺ by different experiments.
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Aihara et al. (1986) studied this question.
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