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Abstract
The sensitivity of intermediate energy K/sup +/ meson-induced elastic and inelastic differential cross section predictions to nuclear structure effects in the nuclear interior is examined for /sup 40/Ca and /sup 208/Pb targets. The observed sensitivity for K/sup +/ mesons is compared to that obtained with intermediate energy protons. In general, the K/sup +/ meson+nucleus elastic and inelastic scattering differential cross sections are an order of magnitude more sensitive to details of nucleon density distributions in the nuclear interior than corresponding proton-nucleus cross sections at comparable incident momentum. It is found that theoretical analyses of high quality K/sup +/ meson+nucleus data which extend to 3 fm/sup -1/ momentum transfer could, in principle, provide new information regarding neutron ground state and transition density distributions in the interiors of large nuclei.
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