Method for the Determination of Strange Particle Parities and Coupling Constants

A general method for determining parities and coupling constants of strange particles directly from angular distributions is described. A reasonably detailed discussion is given of what can be gleaned by this method from the processes of associated production by photons on nucleons and by pions on protons, and from the absorption and charge exchange scattering of charged $K$ mesons on nucleons. If the relative parity of $K^{+}$ to $K^0$ is odd then strange particle parities may be obtained from all these processes, while if this relative parity is even only photoproduction processes may be used to determine parities. Once these relative parities have been determined then coupling constants may be obtained from all the processes.